












































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































* KM 

~ VA 

: 

* w> ^ 

"'o, * * ,G V> *A^T* A ^ 

" o^ ,o N s ^O A* .I'«* <K 

„ G • X-s^V * O S& * *C 

'. "W °«i»„ -o A ; 


°, «’ 
* <y ° 





% <$ * * 


%. **??'• ’ A %"" • *» , ’’ A 

' ,, °- c* ,.<y % s**/^ V> v * 







* *%* ^ 

: v* v 


• u CpG" :i§f 3 ik: v^ v ^ 

o ,tV <J V, oTAV^W^ • c£vJ\ J O A« 

* a > y $V 0 Hj78Sw * A> ^ ^:>US- * av 

A <> '<>«** <g v ** 7 '** a 

G # v i a ^ ><dV Q V 0 o w o ^ *^q jG , t 

" r 7 G * O .A ** 

* **o« ”0^ .' 

A ^ o A ^ ^ 

<4. ' fl '%^lv\\>j ' fv' *■ cjA////ap * r\ <4. 

■ w ’ * 6 ' ^ '*rv •* #’ °o A, • ’ / v. • 

A »si^. % A . • ■■• •- ■ V A *> 

■- \/ :mm° v.,^ * 



A, 

• ♦ s V ' 



V ' <V "O • A 

<G „>■'«. <r' J 
<" "O «A * 

ui v>* A - ^ 

„ o S >A n v 


, *° ^ - 

A* t • • . 'Av 
a V , i'o ' ** 

A * aG A 

vA 


A^o - 
* A ^ 

^ -o'- - A A* ^ 

<V o ® » -O 

0 V * » T$ cA 0 w o ’A*. 

- V V /^SW, ^ 




«* »>* C*^ 


• 1 ' s . 0 ' 0 0 V* ♦ ^o A % 

c A^SS^- 0 A ^ 


\0 v*« * 

vw*v v- 

i * o #^> C\ > «, • • ^ t v 

AV ^L/W ♦ 

0 A^ ’^ 4 . o * A 

* A v V -yJlAA .V 



^ *'o , * A G^ 

\ c° v / 

5 ** v,^ ' 





«/> 

* * o. .0 i 

•f*. a A V j 

• ^A .’* 


*° A* 

^V * o Vo 0 ‘'o. ^ * 0 

1 * * '* ^ ^ n * • o# ^C\ 

*$» vy * A,° ^ 












- 

* '®. ** .(y * 

if ** c o* , — V -o 

• ^ 0 * 



o 

o aV' < ^> O 

* <y o 

o- ^r.v a <\ L -o, 

^ w * °JL° ♦ . L ' a „ <^a 

Vj ^ * c-C^Vv.^. O J^^rrT^ + *C 







* ^ V * t * O <0^ * 5 * * *. a> - t 

* *£» a *£>. /A *- 

- ■ ^ ^ ** ^ a ♦ * 


■#• ,^ v ♦ 
^v • 


* A ^ n 

* '^vA * 

■* A <£> 




° ^y^p. o 

* r\y \a c 


*«s 4 A 


w 


% ° ^ * 
* *° *%. " 

°* *•'.’*’ *° +~ ' 
■ ’ ' °- C\ .0 

o ^f. ^ 1 



* * 



«* ^ S*’ 


* ^1PM3 * "O A v 

_ » ^ y^A « 

o .AA o * A ,J \ - 

' — s* A O '*.** <? \3 *v^ s * A 

^ t « *jj* * c o v & ^^^<<' «^y t *- ~+ 


+ ‘rsr C 

* V> 4 <> 

^ v* Cr ® 

H v 5 ^ A 

• <A O *- < ~ c &M' < * ) 'f 0 

o HO-' ^ O b 9 ^ 

V V * r * O* C> «0 % % 5 y 

A *■ A „ W Ta A*^ ^ 

y »Kfr A ° A ♦ 

\ ^ S S • 

o *o 

* ^ v ^ ° 


# « 




*o v 


■4" t'jfrfZ&z*. V. . ^ .^V'. ^ W »>VK?%-’ -7 


i>° ^ 





”^ 0 * 




> ^ c{a v» |\^x\ W O A 

* ° N°° °P * 0 M 0 5 ^ 




-^0 

^ \ ^_. 

o ”°' -y ,. A***'’*’ A ,.., v. 

■ ^ :'Mk. \y : 














































































KATHRINE V. GRINNELL 




Woman s Place In 
Government 


FROM THE SCIENTIFIC 
AND BIBLICAL 
VIEWPOINT 


KATHRINE V . GRINNELL 


PUBLISHED BY 

HOLMES W. MERTON 
NEW YORK CITY 





Copyright by 

Kathrine V. Grinnell, 1914 



JUL 13 1914 



CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Portrait .Frontispiece 

Preface . 5 

Woman’s Place in Government—The law of dual 

functions. 13 

The Ellipse and the Woman Question. 37 

Woman in Restored Israel. 49 

Personality of God. 83 

God in Government. 105 

Renaissance of Israel (Prologue). 121 

The Renaissance of Israel—Or the coming social 

order. 127 


The Essential Principles of Judaism 


159 












PREFACE 


The modern activities of woman prove that a new 
step in social evolution has begun which must needs 
be considered. This is the subject of woman’s place 
and functions in government. In the present strug¬ 
gles of woman for the right to complete expression, 
there is revealed the working of eternal law and 
eternal right. 

Consideration of this subject cannot he swept 
away as are cobwebs from the wall. Neither can 
common discursive thought dispose of the problem. 
Years of scientific thought on this and its complex 
relations was required to yield a solution, and 
whether we express that solution in common lan¬ 
guage or in technical terms does not change the fact 
that only by scientific methods could a solution be 
reached. 

In this great question of woman’s place in govern¬ 
ment the effort for, and exercise of, the right of the 
ballot represents only one form of expression. Just 
as soon as this is granted, another shifting of the 
scenes will show the action of the law of associative 
forces, requiring a different order and a different 
social system to give place to woman’s special ener¬ 
gies and activities. 

We must continually urge a reminder of the fact 
that the right to vote means the right to be voted 


5 


6 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

for. The right to be voted for means right to office, 
and office means place, which in our present com¬ 
petitive system makes man and woman competitors 
in the political field. 

This competition violates the great fundamental 
and universal law of polarity; i. e ., the law of asso¬ 
ciative forces. 

To assert the specialization of sex only reaffirms 
the knowledge and constant experience of the ages, 
but does not define the relations of men and women 
in the complex life of today or of the coming time. 
It still leaves us in the stage of struggle from which 
we can only emerge by having some definite state¬ 
ment of natural law and method to which all men 
and women can agree, because they recognize them 
as fundamentally true, and capable of being applied 
in all forms and all stages of development. 

There are, however, delusions that block the way 
in the struggle for woman suffrage which must be 
cleared from the minds of men and women before we 
can enter more deeply into the subject. 

Men, if we understand anything of the situation, 
aside from the fear of the feminine quality being 
injured in women, also fear that women are seeking 
to displace men in politics, or to divide the power 
and emoluments of office, leaving their woman’s 
“sphere” to intrude in man’s domain. 

We find also a corresponding fear in the minds of 
many women. Multitudes of women are organizing 
in many lines of woman’s interests, to do womanly 
work in a womanly way, who will not consider suf¬ 
frage favorably until the fear is dispelled, a fear 
that she is intruding in man’s domain and in danger 
of becoming mannish, a term despised by the 


PREFACE 


7 


womanly woman. This fear can only be removed by 
a clearer conception of her place and functions in 
the world of mingled activities of men and women. 

The woman suffrage agitation has been, without 
doubt, a great educator of women and evidences a 
divine impulse at work upon the hearts and minds 
of women—like a religious revival—the full mean¬ 
ing of which is scarcely realized as yet. 

Each stage of growth in the physical, as well as 
in the mental processes—psychological, if you please 
—has its own distinct characteristics, always recog¬ 
nized because it has been common experience. But 
this new phenomenon takes us into a practically un¬ 
known realm, and yet it is acting under a law, for it 
still concerns the relations of man and woman 
though taking those relations into higher and wider 
realms. 

One of these laws—there are twelve ruling mental 
laws—is the law of polarity—the law of magnetism 
—the law of universal order—the law of the ellipse. 
The ellipse, we know, is an elongated oval having 
two centers of force, acting associatively within cir¬ 
cumscribed limits. When we say it is universal we 
speak with exactness, for it is the law of all move¬ 
ment, growth and organized action, from atom to 
universe, from the tiniest seed to the human brain. 

Having two centers of force, life begins by their 
interplay when right conditions are furnished. 

SEXES ARE CO-OPERATIVE 

This fact shows the secret of nature’s action. It 
shows the primary relations of the sexes as associa¬ 
tive, co-operative and co-responsive, and these rela¬ 
tions constitute and create life itself from its sim- 


8 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


plest to the most complex manifestations. Upon this 
law of the ellipse depends the whole world of order 
and the safety and order of the universe itself. 

Upon this law hangs the whole destiny of the 
human race and of organized soeiety. 

This law declares in unmistakable language that 
woman’s place in the home, in society and in the 
state is distinctly feminine, associative and co-op¬ 
erative. It is an expression of the laws of co-ordi¬ 
nation and of complementaries. Astronomy will 
prove this in part. Astronomers tell us that the 
planets move in elliptical orbits. The sun itself 
moves in an elliptical orbit and is one of the two 
necessary centers of an ellipse, the companion center 
not having been discovered, or not having yet be¬ 
come popularly known as discovered. 

Scientists know that all the vital forces of the 
earth possess dual characteristics, as we see in elec¬ 
tricity and magnetism, which are associate forces. 
As one distinguished electrician said, * ‘ They are as 
bride and groom. One is of comparatively small 
power without the other.” 

Physiologists know that every organic structure 
exists by and because of this law of dual and co-op¬ 
erative forces, the law of poles or polarity—the law 
of the ellipse. 

Anatomists know that the human brain has two 
principal centers, and that their functions differ, 
though, through working co-operatively the human 
organic structure, body and brain, is created. Elimi¬ 
nate either center of force from organic condition 
and no structure appears, either in plant, animal or 
in human life. 

The perfected organic structure of society, then, 


PREFACE 


9 


is dependent on organic laws, upon these two ac¬ 
tively associated forces, manifested in man and 
woman. Man and woman are the centers of the 
human ellipse. Their orbits are elliptical in the 
world of movement and activity. 

“Woman’s sphere’’ is merely a poetic term which 
does not correctly describe her real office as related 
to man or society. T,heir lives and activities neces¬ 
sarily intermingle. 

The thing needed is the proper balancing of man’s 
and woman’s powers in the organic structure of 
society, each performing the function naturally be¬ 
longing to him or to her. 

We cannot escape these universal laws however 
much we may violate them. If we foolishly imagine 
that society can be governed by other than laws of 
the universe we find our mistake in the disorders 
and confusions of that society. 

Nowhere are these causes so potent or their re¬ 
sults so disastrous as in the discordant and unsettled 
relations between man and woman in the home, fam¬ 
ily, in marriage and, finally, in that greater family, 
the nation. 

Woman’s life and efforts have been so profound, 
so ever apparent, so needed during the childhood of 
the family and the childhood of the race, that it has 
been difficult to realize the ever developing powers 
of womanhood in the manifold, or to speak with sci¬ 
entific exactness, the twelve-fold forms of expres¬ 
sion required in these later years for the perfection 
of human life. 

In spite of all the old false pleas against it, wo¬ 
man has never been wholly confined to the home. 
At every point in history we find her employed, and 


10 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

necessarily so, in duties which call her out of this 
apparently circumscribed sphere, and that demand 
the exercise of powers upon which the destinies of 
nations have turned. How shall woman rear and 
educate citizens who shall create and maintain a 
noble state, who are equal to the full rounded life 
and faculties of noble citizens, unless she has knowl¬ 
edge of the principles which belong to right govern¬ 
ment, and to a true and harmonious social order ? 

If the work of educating women in the laws and 
duties of motherhood, and of surrounding them 
with suitable environments for their great work, 
were organized in normal departments of society and 
represented in the normal state, how quickly would 
woman magnify her office of motherhood, and 
motherhood fulfill its divine ideal! But this in¬ 
volves the whole home with its manifold interests 
and relations. 

Before it is possible to proceed to consider intelli¬ 
gently the possibility of such an organization we 
should look to see how interwoven are all the essen¬ 
tials of the fabric of society, and what woman’s re¬ 
lations are to them from the standpoint of woman 
expressing all her faculties. 

Every interest in society has definite relations to 
the home. The state exists because of the home and 
for its protection, and to secure its happiness, well 
being and stability! 

The home is the fountain head, the spring of every¬ 
thing human intelligence and energy has achieved, 
or will achieve, and there woman stands crowned 
queen. What constitutes her value? It is cer¬ 
tainly not her physical capacity for motherhood, 
that she shares in common with all other forms of 


PREFACE 


11 


organic life. Her value lies chiefly in her inherent 
qualities as an intelligent, spiritual being, and in 
proportion as she has “become,” so to speak, lies 
her value. 

What do we mean by an intelligent, spiritual be¬ 
ing? Do we mean one with the power of compre¬ 
hending, or do we add the power of achieving? Is 
there in her power of comprehension a quality 
which takes cognizance of whatever man does, or 
has done, or whatever he brings to the home? And 
does her power of achievement associate her with 
him in whatever he undertakes?—else the “power 
of the home ” is an empty sound. 

We all know that man and woman constitute the 
essential elements of the home. Shall their interests 
be unified there and separated in all other work and 
interests? The properties and wants of the home 
extend to the functions and properties of the utmost 
heights of the nation. 

Shall woman, then, compete with man politically, 
or shall the state he reorganized on the basis- of 
equal but variant powers and consequent variance 
of function between man and woman? So, again we 
ask, what shall he the form and spirit of the new 
state which admits woman to its councils, and what 
shall he woman’s place and functions there? 

In the following pages we shall answer. These 
answers will respond from many standpoints, en¬ 
dorsed by many brilliant minds, and with which, we 
hope, the reader’s thoughts and efforts will concur. 


k 




.WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


THE LAWS OF DUAL FUNCTIONS 

In considering the place of woman in the State, as 
a part of the plan of a scientific form of government, 
we may make some preliminary statements enforc¬ 
ing the fact that woman is, in no sense l«ss than man, 
•a universal being. Her needs, duties and responsi¬ 
bilities belong to universal woman, that is, woman 
in every land, making possible an organic unity 
throughout the world. Movements leading to this 
result are proceeding with such rapidity that it is 
no longer a strange and unattempted idea, no longer 
a vague feeling after the unattainable. 

There is probably no country where woman has 
not felt the spirit calling her to an enlarged and 
richer life and where the summons to a great unity 
among women has not reached. 

Although all this is true, there is still lacking the 
complete realization of an organized system where 
woman and man may unitedly work for a truer 
State, each according to his or her own genius and 
quality. In recognizing this fact we were led to 
study woman in her relations to the State and to set 
out, as clearly as may be briefly done, the feminine 
side of the question and of the place and functions of 
woman in a true, or natural order of society. 

We wish to make it clear that only through an 
intelligent conception of the nature and universal 
need of womanly wisdom upon all matters of human 
is 


14 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


interest, in every department of human life, can she 
hope to create, or help to create, a true Social Order. 
Only by organizing her womanhood the more effect¬ 
ively to accomplish whatever she finds right and 
necessary to undertake in fulfilling her responsi¬ 
bilities in creating a true Social Order, will she make 
possible the full exercise and development of human 
powers in both the individual and the collective life. 

In this study it is impossible for me to ignore the 
great woman suffrage movement, one of the earliest 
and strongest evidences that woman is rising to fill 
a new and wider place in the active life of the world. 
It is a movement that has done much to develop 
woman, much to arouse her ambitions and aspira¬ 
tions, much to awaken her to the sense of her duty 
and obligations, as well as to her right to a voice in 
the affairs of the nation. 

We feel that no one will accuse us of being in a 
critical spirit when we affirm that it is our judgment 
that the franchise will not bring woman the blessings 
she hopes for under our present form of govern¬ 
ment, because our present form of government has 
no place distinctively suited to woman, and the addi¬ 
tional reason that it places her in a competitive, 
therefore an unnatural and hurtful, relation to man. 
We wish here to express our admiration for the 
heroic women who, with hearts aflame with love for 
humanity, have struggled for the franchise for 
woman in order to liberate their minds and free them 
from hurtful dominion. There is some subtle law 
that determines the order of movements in the de¬ 
velopment of human institutions. Probably but for 
the precedence of the woman suffrage movement the 
later growths may not have appeared, and the or- 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 15 

ganic principles of which we treat would have been 
as unintelligible as an unknown tongue and, prac¬ 
tically, as valueless. 

The enlargement of woman’s activities, her in¬ 
creasing interest in all the questions which bear 
directly upon life, the earnestness w T ith which she 
seeks to fulfill duties hitherto unknown to her and 
unthought of by her — especially the marvelous 
growth of organization among women — show that 
these must continue until she seeks to crystallize 
these into a complete system. 

In the following pages we shall show that in a 
scientific form of government the problem of wo¬ 
man’s relations to society as an organic whole will 
find a natural and easy solution. 

Every age brings for solution questions peculiar 
to itself. This age is like every other in that respect 
but probably no other age has been called upon to 
decide so many, so varied, or so apparently antag¬ 
onistic or unrelated schemes of reform. 

The most important of these questions, because 
the most inclusive, is the one of government. 

There is a large and growing class of thinkers and 
reformers who may be called Non-Governmentcilists, 
because they object to government in every form, as 
inimical to human freedom and progress. These are 
seeking to bring about the abolition of all govern¬ 
mental institutions, hoping, in this way, to remove 
a great incubus from humanity, and create a people 
Free and Equal. Freedom and Equality are their 
war cry, forgetting that freedom is only a relative 
term, and that Natural and Permanent inequalities 
of mind and of character have produced all govern- 


16 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


ments, and must continue to do so in higher and 
higher forms, until the perfect shall prevail. 

Because there have been abuses and tyranny 
under all known forms, the very terms seem to these 
non-governmentahsts to convey the idea of despotic 
rule and oppression. Among these are some so hu¬ 
mane, so intelligent and loving, so desiring human 
happiness and justice to all, that we have desired 
for them to redeem the term, and to show that no 
form of society can exist without the idea and fact 
of government, and that government does not in¬ 
volve, necessarily, despotism or oppression in any 
degree, but is the only means by which the fullest 
individual and social freedom can be gained or 
preserved. 

Doubtless these objectors to government know 
that the primary meaning of the term of govern¬ 
ment, is the power which directs movements, as a 
ship is directed. It is derived from the Latin guber- 
nare — to steer a ship. 

The very men, then, who decry governments, who 
— whether by force or by philosophy — attempt to 
destroy all governments, have by that very act, 
sought to direct the minds of the people to a method 
of life which seemed to the destroyers better, have 
striven to establish another form of society, a form 
which would make them governors by the very logic 
of events and the operation of natural law, whether 
or not such were the decrier’s purpose. Theirs 
would be the directing or leading power, without 
which the people themselves could accomplish little; 
neither would they exert themselves to secure a 
social change, no matter how much it might work 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


17 


for their own betterment, without this directing or 
governing power. 

In the simplest as well as the most complex social 
life, there are common wants. None are without 
them. These wants must be supplied by; associative 
effort in order to secure their gratification. In every 
case a leader is necessary. He may be a wise leader, 
able to direct their united efforts intelligently, and 
unselfishly seek the weal of those whom he leads, or 
he may be a tyrannical despot, selfishly using his fol¬ 
lowers as a means to forward his own plans, to 
satisfy his greed for power or wealth, or both, caring 
nothing for their interests, except as he may use 
them for his own selfish purposes. 

It is simply a matter of the right use or the 
abuse of the function of leadership by whatever 
name it may be called. In every case there is a 
common need to be supplied, and the leader has a 
function to fill tn securing the supply of this need, 
or in conserving or protecting the common interests. 
This is true, whether it be savages in the forests 
hunting for food under their chief, or whether 
among civilized men in the combinations of labor, 
or of capital, or in any of the multitudinous combina¬ 
tions formed by men or women to accomplish any 
desired result. In each and every case the leaders 
necessary to such combination or union, are Gov¬ 
ernors , that is, they are the directing power or in¬ 
telligence. All organizations are governed by cer¬ 
tain laws found necessary to secure unity of action, 
and each one is as truly a government as though it 
were a nation. The principle is the same. No one 
complains that this is necessarily tyranny, but com¬ 
mon experience teaches that this is not only the 


18 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

most effective, but the only way to achieve results 
desired by numbers of people, that is, that these 
members shall be under leaders or officers with de¬ 
fined statements as to laws which shall govern the 
collective body. 

Now, we are not intending to say that these com¬ 
binations are without fault, that if created for sel¬ 
fish purposes, or if they are narrow in their limits, 
or if used to oppress, or for unlawful gain, that 
they may not even be a source of evil. They may 
be used for all these, but the fact still remains, that 
the best method of securing the common good, is by 
a union or combination of the people, and that lead¬ 
ers, or directors — governors if you please — are 
absolutely necessary to accomplish and preserve such 
union. This union systemized to include either all 
or a large portion of the interests of a people, would 
be a National Government. 

The way of wisdom then is to seek for the natural 
laws of human union in every department of society, 
in order to systematically organize them, so that 
there shall be a perfect adaptation of part to part 
(as in the human organism, with a perfect circula¬ 
tory and nervous system), so that constant and in¬ 
stant communication may be made at any necessary 
moment upon any matter of concern. The tele¬ 
graph, telephone, and postal service, illustrate the 
nervous system; they are now a necessity in organ¬ 
ized society, or in aid of organization. In such a 
system of society or form of government as we predi¬ 
cate, tyranny and oppression shall have no excuse for 
existence, because there will be a real and vital union 
of all the people and all their interests. The worst 
despotism and the worst slavery possible would arise 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


19 


from a disorderly, dis-united or un-united people. 
Freedom can only exist in a state of order. 

All governments known to ns having confessedly 
failed to secure the true and complete welfare of the 
people, the question is forcing itself upon us, what 
kind or form of government or social order, would 
secure the desired results in creating and maintain¬ 
ing human unity, order, and happiness? 

The whole fabric of society is interdependent. 
Society cannot exist in peace without mutual rela¬ 
tions. Is it, then, possible to so regulate these mu¬ 
tual relations, that life may be a series of harmonies? 

Do not say that this is fanciful or sentimental — 
an “iridescent dream ’’ — a mockery of hopes. 

This is the very thing the whole world is crying 
after, and for which reformers are striving, whether 
they realize it or not. Ever since childhood, we have 
heard the cry that “the world is out of joint.” Sup¬ 
pose it were jointed! What would we find? 

The human organism and every other living or¬ 
ganism, are so arranged — part relating to part — 
that each in a state of health, forms a series of 
responsive harmonies. Why not so arrange, then, 
the organic union of all individuals in society? So, 
indeed, the organic union of society may be arranged 
and it is so destined to be! The trend of every or¬ 
ganized movement in the world today, is working 
towards this happy end. 

We have said that the human organism forms a 
series of harmonies. 

The brain is the governor and regulator of the 
harmonies of the individual organism, whether 
acting consciously or automatically and unconsci- 


20 WOMAN’S FtLACH IN GOVERNMENT 

ously. As it is with each individual organism, so it 
is with the organic whole of society. 

Spencer has compared the “ centralized action of 
society at the seat of Government” as the same 
thing as the 4 ‘ regulative activity of the brain . 9 9 

The Hon. Carroll Wright, when Labor Commis¬ 
sioner at Washington, called the Government the 
“soul of the people." 

Maudsley, in his Natural Causes, says: * 1 The mind 
is not a single function or faculty uncompounded 
and working always in the same simplicity and 
unity; but a confederation of functions or faculties, 
which, though they have diverse subordinate opera¬ 
tions and interests, are bound together into the or¬ 
ganic unity of a whole.” 

“The body,” he says, “which is a confederation of 
many different organs and structures, notably has 
its organic unity, whereby all its parts work to¬ 
gether in fellowship to one end, the whole in each 
part and each part in the whole; and it is equally 
true, though not as manifest, that the brain has its 
unity as the central co-ordinating organ in which 
all parts of the body have direct or indirect repre¬ 
sentation, and are brought into relations of action 
and reaction, through the senses and movements, 
with the external world, and that its unity is a 
compound resultant of many parts and functions.” 
So it is with society as an organic whole. 

This being true, the questions to determine are, 
then, What shall constitute the harmonies of Soci¬ 
ety, and how shall we bring about a unity of all 
parts of Society in a great universal organism? 
Will not a study of the mind, which is the great pro¬ 
ducer of all social phenomena, and the regulator of 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT. 21 

all social interests, throw some light upon the sub¬ 
ject? JVe have given some considerable thought 
to this way of finding the plan and the principles 
which may be practically applied to settling those 
vexing questions, and we are convinced that only by 
correct knowledge of the mechanism of the mind 
can we determine the organic law of the structure 
of society, or the law of social organic structures. 

At other times we have made statements which 
had resulted from studying the scientific discoveries 

— published in the “Book of Life”—by Sivartha. 
After years of thought and observation, we are con¬ 
vinced that these discoveries are so valuable in 
carrying on successfully the work of reform, that 
their repetition is needful until the public mind has 
become as familiar with them as it is with those 
mathematical propositions which are constantly 
necessary to use in the practical work of life. We 
shall not only not apologize for quoting and enlarg¬ 
ing upon some of them, but will iterate and reiterate 
them until the mind of the age has beeome per¬ 
meated with their truth. 

If we were to consider the true, or scientific, prin¬ 
ciples of government, in order to reconstruct society 

— and reconstruct it we certainly must — we must 
cease generalizing and come to the particular and the 
exact. The “Book of Life” says: 

“The structure of the brain and the action 
of its faculties are governed by the exact laws 
of geometry. By these laws we are to measure 
the very shape of our thoughts, our feelings, 
and our volitions. These are the celestial me¬ 
chanics of the human mind.” 

The common thought about the mind and its 


22 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


faculties as being of earthly origin, with only one 
faculty, that of religion, to redeem them, has been 
a fruitful source of ignorance, and is a crime against 
the Divinity of our origin. We should regard every 
faculty of the mind as Divine. The human mind 
is derived from the Divine source and is, in its plan 
of structure, an exact copy of the great original 
Mind. Elohim said, ‘‘Let us make man in our image, 
after our likeness, Male and Female created he 
them.’ ’ Were not this true, all the counsels of ancient 
Hebrew teachers and of Jesus — to be perfect as our 
Father in heaven is perfect — are words without 
meaning. 

We wish to lay this foundation here for, if the 
Kingdom of God is ever to come to this earth, it is 
because we, being His children, inherit His powers. 
Only in this way could it be possible for human 
beings either to understand or to have the power 
of establishing any system of government or social 
order, which could by any possibility be called the 
“Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.” It 
must be made possible for that Divine life to be 
manifested through and by us. There is no possible 
social reconstruction which will secure, human satis¬ 
faction, but one which shall be a reproduction of our 
ivhole mental and spiritual nature . The foundations 
of human society, and the foundations of the human 
mind, must exactly agree and these must agree with 
the great original pattern. 

In my judgment, the scientific discoveries given in 
the “Book of Life,” furnish the key to the situation, 
and give a rational explanation of those things 
which have seemed great mysteries to many religious 
minds, and foolishness to others. This author, who 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 23 

thought it worth while to give his life to seeking 
the underlying principles of life and social unity, in 
order that he might help the world to gain social 
salvation, by applying scientific methods to the study 
of the mind itself, from which springs all the insti¬ 
tutions of the world, found some things that to me 
seem very wonderful and interesting. As just 
quoted, he found that “the structure of the brain 
and the action of its faculties are governed by the 
exact laws of geometry”; also that “the human 
brain is constructed on the mathematical plan of 
an ellipse! It is the action of mental forces which 
causes the brain to be an ellipse; consequently the 
mental faculties must obey the mathematical law of 
this curve.” 

Beginning here, we are ready to understand that 
we are getting at a secret which must vitally affect 
the life of society, and help us mightily in our en¬ 
deavors at social reconstruction. You all know, of 
course, that an ellipse may be described as an oval, 
but not as a circle. This makes all the difference 
in the world between them and tells us that an ellipse 
and not a circle is an universal symbol. A circle 
has a single center of force and has, therefore, no 
internal power of movement or of life. It is a dead 
thing, depending upon outside forces to cause move¬ 
ment. But the ellipse has two centers of force — 
with power to act on each other, and thus has the 
power of generating force within itself, from which 
life and living things may come, as we see in all 
seeds. They are ellipsoids, and from within, by 
the polar action of their centers of force, life and 
movement begin. It is the same law of polarity 
which causes the movements of the heavenly bodies 


24 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

and preserves them in their sublime unchanging 
order. These germinal centers evidently, or appar¬ 
ently, contain what we may call the structural lines 
of the organism, whether plant or animal. 

So the human brain centers contain the germinal, 
or structural, lines which determine the human or¬ 
ganic structure. We mention this, because, in get¬ 
ting at the foundation plan and principles of social 
order, it may be well to recall the fact that no or¬ 
ganic structure can be formed or maintain existence 
without the action of dual, or polar forces, known 
as positives and negatives. While each individual 
organism is the result of the action of this law, we 
find it again in all social life. Man and woman may 
be said to, and do, hold polar relations to each other. 
Society could not exist in any form without their 
associative effort we know, but it is not merely bring¬ 
ing into existence and perpetuating a race of intelli¬ 
gent beings, that is their chief function, nor is it the 
full meaning and power of the law of polarity,— that 
is, the law of positives and receptives. It is the law 
of characteristics! Each end of the pole has a dif¬ 
ferent characteristic, therefore a different function! 
These characteristics determine functions. As the 
physiological characteristics determine fatherhood 
and motherhood, mental characteristics determine 
other functions with polar relations. Some are 
ready to say that there is no real difference in the 
mental characteristics of man and woman any more 
distinct than that between individuals. We must 
believe, however, there are few who would attempt 
to maintain such a position. These differences are 
constantly active and all are constantly conscious 
of them. Our terms imply this. We know we always 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 25 

mean a mental difference wlien we characterize any 
trait as masculine or feminine — or say, this is 
manly, and that is womanly! The brain centers 
register a mental as well as a physiological fact, i. e. 
the mind must have polar centers in order to think. 
These forces permeate, because they create, the en¬ 
tire brain as well as body, and their characteristics 
must be constantly active in both brain and body. 
It is evident that there must be a dominance of one 
kind of power or characteristic, which decides wheth¬ 
er this shall be a man, or whether this shall be a 
woman, mentally as well as physically. 

We have stated that the law of polarity works 
other results in its human manifestation than that 
of creating and perpetuating a race. It is the law 
that creates and maintains social order, as well as 
sustains universal order among the heavenly bodies . 
All nature works in harmony toward one end, and 
that end is order and its resultant harmonies. Hu¬ 
man institutions are evolving until they shall finally 
manifest this same law. Its workings have been 
continuous throughout the ages but not always 
clearly manifest, or observed. We have seen that 
the law of polarity demands and creates the har¬ 
monious association of man and woman. It is call¬ 
ing them upward to their highest development in 
every power of their being. It says that the mind 
of woman is the exact counterpart, or complement of 
the mind of man. This law says it was impossible 
for woman to have been created to respond to man 
in only a limited part of his nature, leaving him to 
work in the great field of the world alone, while she 
sits alone, no matter in how divine and queenly a 
fashion, in the home among her children. This law 


26 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

says that in whatever is man’s work, woman’s brain 
has a responding power, which, when developed to 
action, will perform an absolute function in associa¬ 
tion with him in his work; in governing a nation, or 
establishing its order, or in every possible activity. 
We do not need to seek for proofs and illustrations. 
The world has many of them. But now these powers, 
faculties, and functions are not only capable of 
analysis and classification so as to make their or¬ 
derly working in society possible, but, science has 
already produced a work of this kind for our study, 
and laid the foundations for the organization of 
society upon this basis — that is, the associative 
working of man and woman in all departments of 
life. 

If we look into the world of activities we shall see 
the evidences of preparation for a great social order 
which shall satisfy the craving of the human heart 
and supply all human needs. We know that all the 
institutions of society have befen produced by the 
activities of the human mind. We already know that 
there are certain relations existing between some of 
these. For instance, we see that art, science, and 
labor show strong affinities for, and have very defi¬ 
nite relations toward each other. Science ascertains 
principles of structure; Labor constructs, Art de¬ 
termines form, and beautifies the united work of 
Science and Labor; Commerce conveys all these to 
every part of the World. Culture applies them to 
the uses of the people, increasing comfort and re¬ 
finement ; Letters records their achievements. 

The world has long recognized three different gen¬ 
eral divisions of the mind, and the areas they occupy 
in the brain. These divisions are Intellect, Affec- 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


27 


tion, and Volition, or, Wisdom, Love and Will. Wis¬ 
dom is known to reside in the frontal regions of the 
brain; Love the middle portion, and the Will facul¬ 
ties in the back part. In each of these divisions we 
can trace the course of the mental currents, that is, 
the order in which they move. We can know whether 
or not this is correct by comparing it with the actual 
results of the mind’s activities or what has been 
achieved, and the way the mind acts. 

Let us examine the Intellectual division.— The 
very first act of the mind is to see, or perceive; the 
second, to remember; the third, to reason about it; 
the fourth, to apply the results. We know this is 
true, as soon as it is stated. These are the inevitable 
steps which the mind is compelled to take according 
to its plan of structure, and the nature of its activi¬ 
ties, in order to produce sane or orderly movements. 
(Insanity is caused by the mental action being dis¬ 
turbed so that the currents do not flow in orderly 
method. Society is insane when it is irregular and 
disorderly in its methods.) Each one of these fac¬ 
ulties produces a distinct class of wants which are 
fundamental in the individual mind and in society. 
The perceptive faculties are most directly exercised 
in all artistic creations. These faculties may be 
truly called the faculties of art-work. They have 
been concerned in the production of all the beau¬ 
teous forms with which the world is filled. These 
faculties fill their function in the human mind and 
their own permanent place in its structure. These 
are the artistic faculties in the Divine original mind 
which create the beauties of nature and are the 
source of these faculties in the human mind. This 
perceptive function is one of the twelve foundations 


28 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


of the mind and of society. It is universal in its 
needs and manifestations, yet no goverment has ever 
given it a place in its structure. Notwithstanding 
this, it has noble uses in the construction and orna¬ 
mentation of public buildings, and contributes to the 
beauty and dignity of all public governmental dis¬ 
play. There is no nation but makes requisition of 
Art to enhance its splendors, both as a nation and in 
the private life of its people. 

Probably no other power of the mind contributes 
more to the dignity and desirability of life than the 
faculties of Art. The ‘ ‘ Art of living” is the supreme 
and final result of this power, that is, Art as applied 
to all the modes, forms and spirit of living. It is 
one of the functions of Art to determine social forms, 
and to direct social harmonies. Nothing can be more 
inartistic than discord, whether in music or in social 
life. It becomes the province of Art to secure these, 
because by its intrinsic nature it must perceive the 
truth, the truth that is expressed through all form, 
and the relatipn which part bears to part. We see 
this in music, one of the arts. The same principle 
applied to people in their social relations produces 
social harmonies. Let it be well understood that Art 
is not confined to decoration, but relates to life and 
its forms of expression. 

Suppose now the world should decide to put all 
its affairs in order. Do not you believe that an im¬ 
portant step to take would be to organize Art both 
nationally and internationally, so that its benefits 
might be felt universally by all the people? We 
have tested the benefits of organization in both great 
and small ways. We know how immeasurably power 
is increased and made effective in its action, by or- 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


29 


ganization. We know, too, how much more readily 
communication can be made, and interests widely 
separated by distance be brought into communica¬ 
tion and united by common bonds, when there is a 
center of action and communication. 

Suppose the great art interests of the world unite 
to form a department of Art in the new social order 
that is surely coming. During the World’s Fair in 
Chicago in 1893, the congresses of both Art and 
Literature held sessions one day each for the purpose 
of considering how to organize in order to protect 
the author and artist from their publishers. This 
was a step which indicated the trend of development 
in those fields in harmony with the general advance 
in all lines. But now suppose they organize and 
unite both interests — for they are practically insep¬ 
arable— and by their union both be better served? 
This is the true and only rational way. 

The same principle will apply to every department 
of society. Even the- Trusts, which we deplore so 
much, if turned to generous, instead of selfish pur¬ 
poses, would be a means of bringing about combined 
action that would work unmeasured good. 

But in order to show you a general system, which 
must include all human interests, we will here state, 
according to the analysis in the “Book of Life,” the 
twelve departments, or foundations of society, under 
which heads all interests can be classified and united. 
We will also continue the mental analysis. 

In the Intellectual division the groups of faculties 
are, first Art, the second is Letters, the third is 
Science and the fourth, or highest, is Culture. In 
the Social division — Love — which is the middle di¬ 
vision, the first group is Home, the second is Famil- 


30 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

ism, the third is Marriage, and the fourth, or highest, 
is Religion. In the Industrial (or third) division, 
the first, or lowest, group is Commerce, the second is 
Wealth, the third is Labor and the fourth, or highest, 
is Rulership. These are the actual functions of soci¬ 
ety. These functions are the products of the mind’s 
activities. These activities can best be classified into 
a working system under these functional heads. 

We must not forget here what was said about the 
polar law of the mind. Each of these groups of 
faculties has polar—or masculine and feminine, i. e. 
positive and receptive — characteristics. Man has 
no one of these faculties alone, but each group of 
faculties includes both natures, that is, in man those 
faculties we call masculine characteristics, dominate. 
The same group has feminine characteristics which 
dominate in woman, dominate because nature has 
designed her to perform what we will call companion 
functions in life, so as to produce responsive har¬ 
monies of masculine and feminine natures and in 
associative lives and labors. As to Science. In man, 
the faculty of Reason finds its pole in Intuition, or 
Inspiration, which is the feminine side of Reflection 
from which science arises. Suppose, for instance, 
in creating the new social order, we organize science 
as a department? How beneficent would be the re¬ 
sults to man and woman! Following the law of 
polarity, we would include the feminine faculty of 
Inspiration with the masculine faculty of Reason 
as its complement and have, therefore, the two heads, 
or officers, to perform their respective functions in 
the same department. As in the family, each would 
then perform a correlated function. 

Organize Intuition, you cry — that intangible 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 31 

something as elusive as a sunbeam when we try to 
catch it! Impossible, you say. Man has ever 
wrought in Science. Has he wrought alone? Has 
not the inspiring influence of woman been, oftener 
than not, the motive power of his work? The pres¬ 
ence of woman’s inspiration makes of Science a 
Divine and living power. Is not Religion, if 
so we may call the varieties of forms which bear 
that sublime name, organized? Organize an idea! 
Yes, every organized thing in the world is an or¬ 
ganized idea. 

In a limited sense, woman now has her influence 
in the great world where man reigns (apparently) 
supreme. But to do the fullest justice to both man 
and woman she should be given definite recognition , 
and right to perform definite functions in the wider 
fields where she is seeking entrance. This should be 
done by recognizing the associative nature and qual¬ 
ity of woman’s work, by systemizing her functions 
and granting them legitimate right to exercise in ev¬ 
ery department of life and social order. 

Giving her the ballot, a natural right of which she 
is unjustly and unwisely deprived and her efforts 
to gain which constitute a movement of momentous 
value and significance, is a primary step. It is a 
step which will eventuate in organizing society so as 
to give her a legitimate and definite place in the 
State, a place where without resistance and without 
question, as the associate of man she can express 
her womanly work, both in council and in action, as 
she does in the family. 

The preparation for this is and always must be, 
the work of woman herself. The permanent charac¬ 
teristics of both man and woman require this. Man 


32 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


will recognize the fitness of woman and invite her to 
associate work, and the work of this past and present 
generation of women is abundant evidence of their 
fitness to fulfill any and all public duties that devolve 
upon her. 

The further progress of the race is guaranteed by 
a system of education which gives the same knowl¬ 
edge to both sexes, by which knowledge woman may 
be trained to effective work. 

The same argument that applies to the organiza¬ 
tion of one department of government applies to 
each of the twelve. In a brief survey, it is mani¬ 
festly impossible to do more than state a few gen¬ 
eral principles. We will briefly refer to the second 
and third divisions of the brain and mind. 

The second, or middle division, includes in their 
natural sequence, or path, all of the various forms 
of Affection. The analysis in the “Book of Life” 
places the Home as the first function in the division; 
the second is the Family; the third is Marriage. The 
fourth and highest, situated at the dome of the brain 
— the key-stone of the arch, the key-stone of soci¬ 
ety — as the function which binds info structure all 
the other powers of the mind, and makes it a coher¬ 
ent whole, sits Beligion. These are the prime func¬ 
tions of Religion; without the coherence produced by 
the uniting and binding powers of Religion, the 
mind would have no structure and therefore no in¬ 
telligent action. These functions are social func¬ 
tions. Everyone will recognize them as such. 

They belong to the middle division of the brain, 
Love. Love has been the impulse and power which 
created this wonderful organic structure of body and 
brain. Love is the central force of society. (Sel- 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


33 


fishness is only an abnormal growth and a barnacle 
upon the human soul). Love makes the home pos¬ 
sible. These facts are the first foundation of society. 

Drummond shows us in his “Ascent of Man” that 
it was because the home was established, in which the 
virtues could be developed, that the family, as we 
understand it, became possible. This is concurrent 
testimony of great value. For science had already 
made this discovery, stated it, and illustrated it by 
diagrams of mental regions. 

Love creates the family, binds and preserves it as 
a family. This is the second foundation upon which 
an orderly social system shall rest; and from which 
marriage, which had been but the irresponsible union 
of the sexes, has become manifest as a foundation 
without which society cannot exist in orderly con¬ 
dition. 

Love in its highest and supreme form, that of 
Religion, unites us to the great source of being. It 
is also the power which unites humanity in one com¬ 
posite whole, interblending humanity’s life and in¬ 
terests. 

Maudsley defines Religion as the “universal 
basis or cement of society and that religion the 
best which inspires and holds together the best 
social system in the most complete harmony 
of its parts, inspiring the units of it to do those 
things which ought to be done and to leave un¬ 
done those things which ought not to be done 
toward one another, so as to keep it in the best 
health — that is to say — most holy.” 

Religion is a universal principle, the various forms 
in which it is manifested only proving its existence 
as a primary and fundamental power of the human 


34 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

mind. All history proves it to be, as earlier stated, 
the key-stone in the arch of human society, and no 
one will dispute that it is one of society’s great 
essentials. 

The functions in the third division are: Com¬ 
merce, Wealth, Industry and Rulership, saving only 
that Rulership includes the functions of leadership, 
ranking, training and elections, which causes men 
and women to lead in the movements of society and 
to institute forms of fixed government and public 
life. In this department would be conducted the pro¬ 
ceedings of the body of the ivhole. These four com¬ 
plete the number twelve, according to this analysis. 
By this we see that both Society and the mind have 
twelve foundations, capable of forming an organic 
whole — a living structure,— the foundations of so¬ 
ciety being the product of these fundamental powers 
of the Mind. 

Should we organize the twelve departments ac¬ 
cording to the polar law — that is, including women 
as well as men, organically — we should organize 
society and all its interests, giving to both woman and 
man vital and organic relations with every part of 
the whole, in which the sentiment of human affections 
could find practical means for expression, and the 
golden rule become the constant rule of conduct. This 
would be a real union in government in the highest 
and fullest meaning of the term, practical and satis¬ 
factory at every point; a government of the people, 
by the people, and for the people, in whom the true 
method and meaning of human unity had not only 
blossomed but come to fruitage. A government of 
the people, by the people, and for the people, sys¬ 
tematically organized, so that in the good of all the 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


35 


good of each is served. This is the culmination of 
principles ever working to secure order, harmony 
and the perfectness of life. The practice of the 
golden rule has been very difficult in the chaotic 
condition of the world. It could be easily applied 
in an organic unity like this when the good of each 
can readily be seen to be the good of all. Of course 
this is only a partial outline, a hint of the great pos¬ 
sibilities in store for the human race. 

If you read the newspapers and the periodicals of 
the day with open eyes, you will see how continual 
and steady is the growth in this direction. This is 
called the day of organization — the day of getting 
together. Nothing escapes the force of this great 
wave. No interest is too insignificant, nothing too 
great to be unaffected by this unifying influence — 
this spirit of the time. What is more to be desired 
than that this spirit of unity shall continue its work 
until humanity shall be no longer an (apparently) 
agglomerate mass — as the grey matter of the brain 
was once supposed to be, unsympathizing and unre¬ 
lated, but a living and organic structure, conveying 
by the circulation of its vital forces throughout the 
whole world, life, joy, peace, plenty and harmony, 
in which the highest aspirations of the human soul 
may realize conscious relationship of Love with each 
other, as the leaves and branches to the tree, as the 
parts of the human body to each other, and each and 
all to both its earthly and heavenly centers of unity. 

When this shall have been achieved, “the King¬ 
doms of this earth shall have become the Kingdoms 
of our Lord and His Christ.” (Kev. 11.-15.) 


THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 


We now invoke science to the aid of the great ad¬ 
vancing movement of woman. We bring to woman’s 
consideration some of the most important discov¬ 
eries of the age. Through these discoveries, the 
greatest scientist of the past century has given to the 
world a series of natural laws that form a complete 
system of human government under which the peo¬ 
ple of the world must unite to bring about the com¬ 
ing Social Order. 

These laws furnish to woman the plans for social, 
political and industrial life through which she can 
securely establish her place and normal rights in the 
private and public life of the new age. 

The first step toward the accomplishment of her 
great destiny is the realization of the primal law of 
life, the basic law of the organic worlds. This law is 
here quoted; it is manifest throughout the universe, 
and, it is the ruling law in human life and in all 
human activities. 

To understand and to obey the Law of the Ellipse 
and the laws dependent upon that law, is the only 
way to solve the problem of woman’s place in the 
institutions of society. Many scientists have said 
that natural laws should apply to the institutions 
of society. But, the scientist whom we mention was 
the first to work out those great laws that formulated 
such a structure and made the vital laws of nature 
as definite and certain in the social life of man as 


37 


38 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

the scientists had made the laws of physics definite 
and certain in the material world. 

te states one of these laws 
the following quotation 
u his 4 * Book of Life ’’: 

“In the great curve 
known as the Ellipse the 
forces radiate from two 
focal points, or centers. 
In the brain ellipse the 
front one of these (as 
shown in the diagram) 
is the focus for control¬ 
ling muscular motion, 
while the back one is the 
focus of sensation from the whole body. 

“It is a vital law that these two centers always 
have the power to excite each other to action. 
The motus, or front center, predominates in the 
brain and mind of man; but the back center, or 
sensus, is strongest in woman’s brain and char¬ 
acter. One is positive and the other is receptive. 
In all human life, private or public, these centers 
produce two equal and complemental spheres, or 
phases of force and conduct. 

“Carried into further detail science has also 
proved that in each of the twelve groups of 
mental faculties, these faculties have an arrange¬ 
ment in pairs, one of each pair being positive, or 
masculine, and the other being receptive, or 
feminine. 

“It follows, as a logical result, that when all 
institutions are made to be in harmony with the 
very organism of the human mind, we shall find 



THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 39 

both of these dual phases represented and or¬ 
ganized in all classes of employment.’’ 

We have the positive proof of natural laws 
as evidence that 4 ‘The offices and labors of soci¬ 
ety are all dual. Each function and labor has its 
masculine and its feminine side. Thus, in the 
department of Design, the work of illustration 
is feminine and is a complement to that of build¬ 
ing, which is masculine. So is the work of In¬ 
spiration complemental to the work of Law; and 
that of Exchanges is complemental to that of 
Machinery. ’ ’ 

When we fully understand that the law of the 
Ellipse, and not the circle or sphere is the law of 
order, power and activity, we shall have the key to 
the entire situation. Upon this law hangs the whole 
world of order, and the order and safety of the 
universe itself. Every astronomer knows this in 
part. They know that the planets move in elliptical 
orbits. They know that, the sun itself moves in an 
elliptical orbit and is one of the two necessary cen¬ 
ters of an ellipse, the companion center not having 
been discovered, or not having been popularly known 
as discovered. 

Scientists know that all the vital forces of the 
earth possess dual characteristics. Physiologists 
know that every organic structure exists by and 
because of this law of dual and co-operative forces,— 
the law of poles or polarity, to use the scientific 
terms. Anatomists know that the human brain has 
two primal centers, and that their functions differ, 
but that working co-operatively, the human organic 
structure, body and brain, is created. Eliminate 


40 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


either center of force or power, and no structure ap¬ 
pears, either in plant, animal or human life. 

The perfected organic structure of society, then, 
depends upon these two actively associated forces 
manifested in man and woman. They are the centers 
of the human ellipse. Their orbits are elliptical in 
the world of movement and activity. We cannot es¬ 
cape this universal law however much we may vio¬ 
late it. If we foolishly imagine that society can be 
governed by other than the laws of the universe 
we find our mistakes in its disorders and confusions. 
Nowhere are these causes so potent, nor their re¬ 
sults so disastrous as in the discordant and unset¬ 
tled relations between man and woman in marriage, 
in the home and family and finally in that great 
family, the nation. It is not alone the right, the 
privilege, or the duty of woman to interest herself 
in great public questions — as a mother interests 
herself in the affairs of the home and family — in 
seeking the exercise of the franchise for the sake of 
the national family. There are both natural and 
spiritual forces moving in this matter, and the 
natural is only an expression of the spiritual. They 
both agree. The Cycle is complete. We are re¬ 
turned to the beginning of a new Cycle and a new 
social order. 

The law of Creation,— the law of the ellipse,— 
the law of Divine parenthood by which we know 
God as a Father, was enunciated in the beginning. 
How have we not seen and known that the great 
Eternal Mother was also declared in the beginning 
as working associatively with the Father? The 
Eternal Creative Spirit is directing this woman 
movement, because a new age has come when woman 


THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 41 

must rise to take her rightful place in the great order 
of the world. The Eternal Woman seeks to restore 
woman to her lost estate, and to recreate her de¬ 
signed Kingdom, where she is and must be co-ruler 
in all realms with man. 

The family was the first step in human social 
evolution. This necessity is so profound, so ever 
apparent, and woman’s life and efforts so needed 
during the childhood of the family, and the child¬ 
hood of the race, that it has been difficult to realize 
the ever developing powers of womanhood in the 
manifold, or to speak with scientific exactness, the 
twelve-fold forms of expression. 

If we study the brain and mind we will find that 
her mental characteristics are at all 'points associ- 
atively related and complemental to the mental char¬ 
acteristics of man . That this has not always been 
noted is due alone to lack of observation and de¬ 
velopment, and nowhere argues justly that woman 
is either inferior or superior to man because she 
does not do the same thing that man does, in the 
same way he does. Neither does she desire to do 
this. She only seeks the expression of her own 
powers. Even with the ballot she will do woman’s 
work in woman’s way. 

Notwithstanding the varied accomplishments of 
woman, and her varied activities throughout all gen¬ 
erations, man has never believed of her, nor has 
woman accredited herself with, the powers she actu¬ 
ally possesses; though she has been Queen, Empress, 
Czarina, in the various forms of society always ex¬ 
isting, her position in these cases has appeared to 
be accidental. Not so. It was the working of that 
universal law and manifesting feminine power and 


42 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


intelligence which is able to rule nations as well as 
families, but in these cases her rule is no more com¬ 
plete than is the lonely rule of man. 

William and Mary of England ruled together. 
They obeyed the law of poles, or polarity, but this 
law was not carried into the organized life of 
society. 

But what has this to do with the ballot? Much 
every way, because it decides the question of ivoman 
suffrage . For if woman has the right to vote she 
has the right to be voted for, and that means office, 
and office means place . And unless the law of the 
“ poles ,’’ or the law of associative forces be obeyed, 
it makes her a competitor of man, and that creates 
an anarchistic condition. This principle works 
eternally, age upon age, to preserve God’s way. 
God has set an everlasting seal against the intru¬ 
sion of the sexes upon each other, in order to secure 
their harmonious association with each other. 

Now let us suppose we wish to organize society in 
such a way as to be in harmony with the Divine law, 
to give woman her rightful and natural share in con¬ 
ducting the needs and business of the nation, or 
nations,— for the world is one. For several years 
we have suggested that the nation should have a dual 
head, i. e., a Presidess and a President. A woman 
should represent the organized womanhood of the 
nation, while the president still maintains his cus¬ 
tomary place. Their relations toward each other 
would depend entirely upon the needs and conditions 
of the time. This can be brought about in a simple 
and natural manner, if women will turn their efforts 
toward promoting this plan, and proceed to educate 
the developing powers of woman and thus to in- 


THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 43 

crease their fitness for this work. It is inevitable 
that the organized womanhood of the nations of the 
world will exert an influence, besides doing an actual 
work, toward which man cannot be indifferent, and 
his action toward her will be in harmony with his 
natural characteristics. It is woman’s business to 
lead man to moral heights in governmental, as well 
as in social and family life. If she cannot gain her 
political desires quite as quickly, it will be better 
done and will be permanent. 

England set us an example it will be well to fol¬ 
low, when William and Mary ruled together, though, 
so far as we know, there was no attempt to carry 
this idea into the business or political life of the 
people. But the developments of both this time and 
that call for a much wider attempt to apply this 
law. In fact, the time is every day drawing nearer 
when events will force action in this direction. When 
woman takes this position, man too will act naturally, 
and himself see more quickly even than woman, the 
benefits of combined action. What will then occur? 
The same old story will be told and sung which the 
angels sang when the foundations of human society 
were laid in the Eternal Order. For the same char¬ 
acteristics Divinely created, that rule man in social 
life, rule him also in political life. It is a masculine 
trait to act with indifference, if not with scorn, 
toward the woman who begs or tries to force his 
favor . 

William and Mary of England obeyed the law, but 
not the whole law. That would give us organized 
society. It would make the nation a large family 
where woman would take her natural place, not only 
unquestioned, but sought for in every department of 


44 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


society to do woman’s work in woman’s way, coun¬ 
selling with man wherever needed, the same as in 
the family. But the first requirement of all is that of 
organizing in one great body by organizing her in¬ 
terests so as to secure the completest knowledge and 
development necessary to fit her to fulfill her perfect 
destiny as aid, counsellor and companion of man in 
the fields of the world. 

We have always felt an instinctive and unconquer¬ 
able aversion to petitioning man to grant to woman 
the privilege of suffrage, the right being naturally 
hers where suffrage exists in any nation. It de¬ 
means womanhood and is barren of the best results. 
Woman must possess the intrinsic quality which 
itself moves him to seek to gain her favor, and to aid 
her in her purposes, or to invite her aid in his cares 
and responsibilities in the national as he now does 
in the family life. 

Woman is a sovereign in her own right by virtue 
of her characteristics and special functions. It is a 
mistake for her to descend from her throne of power 
to petition man for either the ballot or for any other 
public privilege. Let her but study her own natural 
duties and their relations to the world at large, and 
then strive for the accomplishment of these in an 
organized way, then man will act according to his 
instincts, and reason too, of course, and will come to 
see and measure rightly the value of woman and the 
need of her wisdom in co-operating with him in cre¬ 
ating a new nation in which righteousness, peace and 
order prevails through their united efforts. 

In other countries the Queen or Empress has a 
legal right to rule with her husband, whether she 
exercises that right or not, but in this Republic the 


THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 45 

Presidents wife has no legal, or other rights in na¬ 
tional affairs. There is a better way than ours, the 
way that nature ordains, the way that science points 
out. We repeat the suggestion frequently made dur¬ 
ing the years since we began the study of social 
questions, that of combining the already organized 
bodies of women (though only a preliminary step) 
in the widely varied interests which have increased 
in variety, and also in unity, as for instance the fed¬ 
erated womenS clubs, the great National and In¬ 
ternational WomanS Christian Temperance socie¬ 
ties, and many others, who do now each combine 
under one head. Following this union it would be a 
gracious act for the women of this country to select 
the wife of the President of the United States for the 
national head of these organizations. That, however, 
would not be a scientific order, but will be a long step 
toward a scientific order. A scientific order is the 
thing we are working toward, though perhaps uncon¬ 
sciously. We are well aware that when we sug¬ 
gest the Presidents wife as a national or interna¬ 
tional head, some women seriously object to this sug¬ 
gestion, partly for the reason that it is too slow a 
way; they are too busy working for suffrage; it is 
too radical a change, besides. But as the old “saw” 
has it “the longest way around is the shortest way 
home,” and all things will really come faster in this 
natural way. 

Another reason urged is that the President’s wife 
may be unsuitable for various reasons. She may not 
be fitted to undertake such responsibilities, the Presi¬ 
dent might not favor it, or, she may not be suitable 
“timber,” as men in politics say, in making political 
choice. 


46 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


When all is said and done, we must act with ref¬ 
erence to whatever may be the present development 
of the people. This is the way God has always acted. 
He chooses and must choose, with reference to the 
fitness of any given person whom He chooses, then 
He sends His Spirit to help the instrument chosen. 
David says: “Promotion cometh neither from the 
east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But 
God is judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up 
another.” So even the President’s wife might not 
be chosen for this office. It is not necessary, but it is 
ideal. The principal thing is to carry out the idea 
of developing and combining all the forces of society 
in a scientific manner. The time is at hand for doing 
this thing. There is already formulated a system 
for such an organization. The final work can be ac¬ 
complished in a short time when all things are ready. 

There are many things women may learn from men 
as to method, as man may also learn from women in 
the way of gentleness, bringing a softer spirit into 
the great kinds of business in the world. Any way it 
is better for both to counsel together on all questions, 
because all matters at last reach and react upon the 
home and make or mar its happiness and effective¬ 
ness. Let no one imagine in his heart that this is not 
true, or that it is a platitude. No one, and no home 
can escape it, for the home is the very first social 
foundation. Whatever form the coming Order of So¬ 
ciety may take this will remain true. Forever here, 
as well as in the nation, woman and man must work 
unitedly, neither struggling for supremacy, but each 
seeking the good of each and all combined. Nay 
more; both seeking the perfect Order that they may 
be in harmony with Heaven’s Law of Order, and so 


THE ELLIPSE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION 47 

fulfil the great design to complete which the human 
race was created on this earth. Let us seek the com¬ 
plete good by combining the womanhood of the world 
according to the latest discoveries of science, resting 
assured that it is in readiness. 



WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


We seek to introduce a new kind of force into poli¬ 
tics and Government and into the great branches of 
business of the world; into Art, Science, Letters and 
Culture; a new kind of force into the Home, Family, 
Industry and Commerce. Not only a new kind of 
force, but new methods and a new system for unit¬ 
ing all these great societary interests in harmony 
with the truer spirit of humanity now being almost 
universally manifested, indicating the dawn of a new 
Era, full of promise for the coming ages, a still fuller 
fruition of the angels’ greeting when Christ was 
born, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” 

We say, introduce a new force or power, but this 
power is new only to modern politics, and the mod¬ 
ern spirit and methods of business, of social life and 
governments, for He of whom we are to speak is the 
‘‘Ancient of Days,” a political leader whose “goings 
have been from everlasting,” whose leadership dis¬ 
played supreme wisdom and power. It is He who 
guided the nation of Israel in righteousness and 
gave them a code of righteous laws which has formed 
the basis for the laws of many nations to this day. 

In later times not only have politics and religion 
been divorced, but there has been a practical sepa¬ 
ration of religion from the activities of life. While, 
in Israel, during its flourishing period, and causing 
its great development, religion was a central part 


49 


50 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

of statesmanship, and moulded the common life of 
the people. 

When religion waned, Israel forsook Yehovah, re¬ 
jected His leadership, ignored the natural laws He 
gave them, and went blindly on wrecking the nation 
by unholy greed for wealth and lust of power, pomp 
and show. While there were shining examples of 
the influence of woman in Israel during portions of 
her history, it is nevertheless true that woman, the 
very fountain and mistress of life, was and has been 
from that time until now, despoiled and subjected, 
the right to the exercise of her faculties limited, pub¬ 
lic and political liberties denied her as to an inferior 
being unfit for grave public duties. Nature’s design, 
which declares her a helpmeet and fit for man in all 
his works and needs, has been frustrated until her cry 
for justice and right has reached Yehovah’s ears. 
The cycles have run their course! A new cycle has 
entered! Yehovah’s Kingdom is at hand! In the 
Kingdom of Yehovah woman has place and power 
suited to her distinct characteristics. Here also poli¬ 
tics and religion resume their old and natural rela¬ 
tionships. That Day is here and now! 

Let us glance for a moment at present conditions 
and see if there are any signs of the great and immi¬ 
nent change! Lo, they are everywhere! Nothing 
strikes our attention more forcibly or more quickly 
than the new attitude of woman. Alive at last to her 
own value, with quickened sense of her responsibility 
to the world, she is struggling for place and recog¬ 
nition in the great movements of the world, strug¬ 
gling for political equality with man and proceeding 
. to act according to her consciousness and ability. Be¬ 
ing a woman, my sympathies with the aspirations of 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


51 


woman are natural and hearty, and filled with de¬ 
sires for the greatest possible development, cultiva¬ 
tion and exercise of all her powers of mind and char¬ 
acter. But we wish to set the reader’s mind to mak¬ 
ing clearer enquiries concerning what are the specific 
rights and what are the specific functions of woman 
in a great social organism , concerning what relation 
these bear to those specific functions which belong 
to man and what relation these all have to the King¬ 
dom of God, or Yehovah. 

When woman gains the right of suffrage what 
changes will she make in our governmental system? 
We know she will be a great moral power, and will 
seek in every way to add her womanly intelligence 
and to enlarge her activities to the utmost possible 
limit for the benefit of humanity, but what then? 
Have our institutions the form and method which 
will give to woman a place definitely and distinctly 
feminine, the same as she holds in the family, where 
there are no real questions as to her place and 
functions? 

Should not the nation be but a larger and more 
complex family, where woman may exercise all her 
powers and dignities as an associate, and not a com¬ 
petitor of man? Is there now existing a system of 
government upon earth that admits the fullest rep¬ 
resentation of ALL the interests of society? We 
know there is none. Is such a system possible? Not 
only is such a system possible, but all the develop¬ 
ments of the time tell the story of the progress 
and preparation for it, for the human faculties, 
in their full development, require such a sys¬ 
tem. The work of scientific discovery, and a state¬ 
ment of the laws of the human mind have already 


52 


WOMAN'S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


been made. These discoveries furnish the practical 
plans and principles for the solution of the problem 
of the ages. 

We are at a serious crisis in human history. What 
will the nations decide to do? Will they accept the 
practical principles which science furnishes, and or¬ 
ganize the life of the world on a scientific basis which 
will insure the peaceful order of society, or — what? 

History has always shown that whenever a people 
have risen to great moral and spiritual heights, and 
then fail to maintain this altitude by incorporating 
their ideals in their life and institutions, the result 
is inevitably disastrous. The descent is in propor¬ 
tion to the exaltation! The last half century has 
witnessed a great awakening and exaltation of social 
ideals among the people in every land. The remo¬ 
test bounds of the civilized world have seen the dawn 
of the Coming Light. Every faculty of the human 
mind is recognizing its divine right to be and to be 
expressed. The ideals of all generations are strug¬ 
gling for expression through the organized life of this 
age. But no existing government has the organs 
through which these can become a permanent part 
of our institutions. 

It is as if human institutions were trying to ex¬ 
press human life and consciousness through the defi¬ 
cient organs of an animal. What is to be done? 
Shall we not apply the discoveries of science to gov¬ 
ernmental and social order and have a completely 
organized society? and shall we not bring the na¬ 
tions into one great federated body, with one system 
of government and one social order? Or shall we 
come to this high conception with sufficient knowl¬ 
edge obtainable to carry it out, and then fail of com- 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


53 


pleting the work given this generation to accom¬ 
plish, and so plunge tile nations into terrors beside 
which the 4 4 dark ages’ * were as light 1 Nay, nay; not 
so it is written! The spirit is poured out from on 
high. It is the day of vision, the day of mental 
illumination. It is the day of knowledge, the day of 
organization, the day of achievement. 

At the first great congress of women in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., in 1888, the Rev. Anna Shaw said that 
4 4 every reformer had a vision before he or she en¬ 
tered the work of reform.’’ Hundreds of women 
can attest this truth. Indeed no woman from the 
seclusion of home and family life could lift her voice 
with a new thought or new knowledge unless her 
vision had been opened. 

We do not need to confess our own soul’s experi¬ 
ences. It is enough that our spiritual eyes were 
opened to see great things in the purposes of God. 
The imperious demand of our spirit forced open the 
gateways that lead to the causative realms and com¬ 
pelled certain hidden meanings to unfold themselves. 
Here we found that God’s great idea and the under¬ 
lying principles of Social and Governmental Order 
began to be expressed on earth, through the twelve- 
tribed nation of Israel, and that the perfection of 
its development, to be accomplished during the ages, 
was symbolized in John’s magnificent vision of the 
New Jerusalem. 

But further than this, at the center of universal 
life and force, the type and antetype of organized 
being — the radiating and governing center of 
power, forming the Godhead, are two beings, our 
Heavenly Father and our Heavenly Mother. In¬ 
stead of being a diffused and indefinable essence, 


54 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


these beings are as distinct and real in their persons, 
or individualities, as are the human beings made in 
their image. “And Elohim said, 'Let us make man 
in our image,’ . . . male and female made He 

them.” We say this at this time because in this 
day of woman’s seeking equality with man — having 
during the ages been deemed an inferior — she may 
have the authoritative statement of the Hebrew 
Bible, as well as the dicta of modern science, that in 
the principles involved in these dual personalities 
lies the secret of all life and of all order throughout 
the universe and in the order of society, now and 
forever more. 

In this fact and law is determined the position and 
functions of woman as companion and co-worker 
with man as an eternal fact. If we can only realize 
it, instead of rejecting it, this knowledge is of the 
intensest interest and value to woman in strengthen¬ 
ing her in her endeavors to rise and to achieve her 
ideals of expressing the powers of womanhood. For 
this principle of the feminine force and nature in 
co-operative action, within organisms which possess 
these distinctive differences, underlies all order and 
all governments in the heavens and in the earth. 

So when Yehovah founded human society on this 
earth he created man and woman to extend the order 
of life as it is in heaven, to this earth, and gave man 
and woman dominion over every living thing that 
moveth in the earth. We cannot help believing that 
the histories and symbols of the Bible have some 
great significance and relation to us in these modern 
days, even before we know that science has done a 
supreme work in discovering their secret meanings. 
But now this age will become witness to the fact that 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 55 

science has entered the innermost temples of both the 
divine and human mind and revealed their secrets, 
and discovered their laws as manifested in human 
history. Science has already elaborated and laid 
down a complete system of social life and govern¬ 
ment based on the laws of the mind and body. 

These laws are universal, and in the coming age 
must determine the form of governments, because 
they represent the complete development of all the 
faculties, and are inherent in every race and nation . 
We can only give hints and outline statements of 
the work of the most comprehensive and most 
masterly mind of his time, Alesha Sivartha. 

This author, by his discoveries, has laid the foun¬ 
dations for a natural or scientific order of society, 
in complete harmony with the historic and prophetic 
plan of Yehovah as revealed by His lawgiver, Moses, 
and by His prophets in the Hebrew Bible. These 
discoveries are, in themselves, a complete answer to 
and refutation of all critics, ancient or modern, of 
this great Book of antiquity. They forever deprive 
speculative theology of its power to blind the com¬ 
prehension to the truths of this Book, and to longer 
conceal the plans so clearly stated here, that we won¬ 
der how the world has ever failed to know and under¬ 
stand them. Only that we now know that it has 
needed science to furnish indisputable knowledge of 
the natural and fundamental principles involved in 
the twelve-tribed order of ancient Israel, which justi¬ 
fied the prophecies of her restoration. We cannot 
present all the salient points and central principles, 
but shall give some of the great essentials. If we 
shall attract your favorable attention to its study, 
we shall take some satisfaction in our efforts. We 


56 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

cannot carry out these great essentials intelligently 
without a knowledge sufficient to undertake their es¬ 
tablishment among the peoples of the earth. But the 
truth of ancient prophecy is demonstrated by those 
discoveries, both as to fact and to date, as given by 
Daniel, the ancient seer. Now, at the exact period 
upon which all interpreters of prophecy are agreed, 
we find this statement in the form of positive sci¬ 
ence, of the basic laws of the kingdom, its form of 
organization, the ideal plan of its houses, and all its 
methods of life. 

This may seem unbelievable, until we remember 
how simple the application of a problem may become 
when we have the key to its solution. But these all 
have their basis in known mental and spiritual laws. 
Here is the ultimate of human hopes and aspirations! 
Fragmentary truths have always chained us to the 
divine life and developed our mental and spiritual 
faculties, but have also, because they were fragmen¬ 
tary and disorderly, admitted false theories. But 
here, in this great and new statement of laws and 
truths they have all found their natural place and 
relations, unobscured by erroneous doctrines. 

Here we also find temperance its place in the 
great purpose of life; here the right of suffrage to 
woman, her place and functions, in a natural order 
of society; here the social problem,— the solution the 
world is seeking; here the relations of labor and capi¬ 
tal. Here at the apex, the keystone of all our facul¬ 
ties, which binds them all into permanent and orderly 
structure, sits Religion, in a system which admits 
their perfect action and relation to each other in the 
conduct of all national affairs — and all things that 
concern us are national affairs,— we here find the 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 57 

natural system of Government based on all the facul¬ 
ties of the mind. 

Each of the questions of modern reform seems to 
be the one of greatest importance to those who per¬ 
ceive the evils caused by its neglect, and each set of 
reformers is rightly exercising his utmost powers to 
produce a radical improvement in the line of his 
special observation and labor. While not one of 
these reformers has exaggerated the actual impor¬ 
tance of the change he seeks to bring about, yet each 
has exaggerated their relative importance. No 
single reform can produce the great results expected 
from it, for every interest in society is related to 
every other interest in a definite way, and no reform 
can be successfully achieved in a single direction un¬ 
less accompanied by a corresponding change or 
reform in the departments of society most closely 
related to it. They are all necessary steps in the 
great process of evolution which is pressing us on¬ 
ward toward the fulfillment of God’s great idea . 
And this idea is the perfecting of the individual life, 
and the perfecting of the national life of society in 
a complete organization which inevitably both causes 
and produces a condition freed from the torments 
and dissatisfactions of the chaotic and practically 
unorganized life we now know as civilization. 

In seeking for God’s kingdom, it is now found that 
these laws express both the human and Divine Mind. 
In a vague and undefined way the thoughts and senti¬ 
ments connected with the Idea of the Kingdom of 
God, or of the millennium, have always been cher¬ 
ished by the human heart. Its near approach has 
been foretold since early in the nineteenth century. 
The cry of the Angel of the Revelator, who “set his 


58 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the 
earth . . . and swore . . . that the set times 

should no longer be delayed,’’ i. e., that the old 
dispensations were past and the new about to enter, 
came forth when we who are now considering the 
principles of the kingdom were children. The whole 
world heard the cry. Did they heed? A few, under 
the terrors of fear, looked for some dreadful crash, 
and finding none that they could perceive, went their 
way mocking. Many others, in the exaltation of the 
hope of a sublime miracle which they might recognize 
as such, or a spectacular display in the clouds, still 
cling to their hopes of witnessing in the material 
heavens some sign — forgetting that the kingdom 
must begin in the inner spiritual character. No 
miracle that can happen, no sign that can be given, 
can be so great as the ‘ 4 Sign of the Son of Man.” 
Verily I say unto you, that when ye understand that 
sign the kingdom will indeed be come, for in man, 
that is in the human being, lies every law of Divine 
Order and Harmony and the germ of every faculty. 
Within man and through man is revealed the living 
God . 

The power to perceive spiritual truths, and to 
communicate with the Divine Intelligencies, who are 
assisting by their influences the development of the 
race, is a possibility with all minds, if they earnestly 
desire and seek for it. But to no one can come the 
complete vision of the kingdom, except those who 
have become as little children, unfilled with the preju¬ 
dices of dogmatism, and unsoiled with carnality. The 
spirit must truly desire the truth before it can per¬ 
ceive and receive the stupendous fact that this earth 
is to be the arena of all that has been foretold con- 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 59 

cerning the destiny of the human race. All the glow¬ 
ing pictures of heaven are only prophecies of human 
and earthly possibilities, and more. For, “Eye hath 
not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into 
the heart of man,” the joys of the human family, not 
in some far-off sphere, but in the New Earth, re¬ 
created by the potent forces of the combined action 
of the divine and human mind, and the industry of 
man. The Kingdom of God is a political kingdom, 
if you please,— a political kingdom of spiritual laws. 
That is, it is based upon both the mental and spirit¬ 
ual laws of man’s nature, which is a copy and reflex 
of the nature of God. It has definite organization 
and form of Government. It is not a phantasma¬ 
goria nor a mere sentiment. It is a real human fact 
involving human beings in their social and govern¬ 
mental relations. It is the reign of law in every 
faculty of the human mind and in every department 
of human society. 

All that we have known before about the kingdom 
we have found in the Hebrew Bible. From this book 
we read of the first inception of the idea and the 
historical fact of a nation founded to realize it in 
their government and personal life. This was the 
Israelitish nation, and it was founded under the 
direct influences of Yehovah, who promised that it 
should be a “Holy nation” and a “Kingdom of 
Priests” if they kept the law. Its history is one of 
extreme interest, and has a singular fascination for 
the devout and spiritual mind, and yet, so strangely 
has its history and prophecies been ignored by the 
priesthood of the Christian dispensation that Chris¬ 
tians generally are almost entirely ignorant of its 
annals, and wholly ignorant of its import as a factor 


60 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT, 


in the evolution of the race. They miss entirely the 
purpose and intention of the book. And this, not¬ 
withstanding their faith in the plenary inspiration 
of the Bible, and notwithstanding that they think 
their whole claim to eternal life lies in its pages. 
Moses, during the memorable forty days that he 
was in the mountain with Yehovah, received the 
instructions which he afterward incorporated in 
what is known as the “Mosaic Law” which today 
stands superior to any other system of laws among 
ancient or modern nations. For this law was not 
only the expression of the Will and Wisdom of Ye¬ 
hovah, hut of the internal necessities of the people. 
It was wholly suited to the people of that child age. 
We have now come to a more mature age when, in¬ 
stead of commands as to children, we need a scien¬ 
tific statement of the laws of the mind, as well as of 
physical laws. 

Law is the regular mode of action of internal 
forces. It is never imposed on man against his na¬ 
ture, but in accordance with and a part of the funda¬ 
mental principles of his nature. Indeed, when Moses 
finished the delivery of the law, he gave this as its 
binding force and reason. It was so natural that 
they needed no teacher even from the heavens to 
teach them how to obey, “for the word is nigh thee, 
in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do 
it,” said he. 

Man has the power to disobey as well as to obey. 
It is always possible to vary from the truth of nature, 
and hence the storms and struggles, the sufferings 
and sorrows, that have afflicted the human race. It 
is the inevitable result of violated law, but when 
man has at last learned that the laws that rule the 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 61 

universe include the laws of his own being, and that 
nothing but discord, disorder and destruction, can 
result from disobedience to them, he will begin to 
search them out, and apply his intelligence and will 
to finding a way to secure the co-operation of his 
fellows in a common obedience. 

The race is so united in a common life that per¬ 
sonal obedience can only be partial in the nature of 
things, unless accompanied by the obedience of our 
fellows. 

But to continue the historical line: — The Jews, 
whom we know as a distinct people today, have come 
to consider themselves, and to be considered as the 
only representatives on earth of this historic people. 
But the Jewish people comprise only a small portion 
of the nation of Israel, being the descendants of only 
two and one-half out of the twelve tribes. Solomon, 
the third king of Israel, in his latex years, became 
profligate and tyrannical. He gathered an immense 
and expensive establishment for his own selfish pur¬ 
poses for the support of which he taxed the people 
beyond endurance. After his death the people asked 
from his son, who succeeded him, a reduction of their 
burdens. But he, guided by the hot-blooded youths 
who were his associates, instead of by the elder men, 
refused to consider their petition and answered them 
roughly, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy 
and I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you 
with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” 
There could be only one result. Ten of the tribes 
revolted and, choosing a king, set up for an inde¬ 
pendent nation. 

This was known as the House, or Kingdom of 
Israel, but was also called Ephraim, because this 


62 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

half tribe led in the revolt. The tribes who re¬ 
mained loyal to Solomon’s son were known as the 
Kingdom of Jndah, from which come our modern 
Jews. 

After a few hundred years of almost incessant 
warfare between these divided nations, the Israelites 
were captured by the King of Assyria and carried 
away into a captivity from which they have never 
returned. From that time they have been known 
by the descendants of Judah and by all readers of 
their history as the ‘‘Lost Tribes.” But the burden 
of the ancient prophecies is the restoration of those 
two nations under the tribal order, and of their be¬ 
coming reunited to form one nation again, under one 
king, “David” — ‘ 4 whom I will raise up unto you,” 
saith Yehovah. 

Equally with this prophecy so often quoted is the 
promise that Jerusalem shall be rebuilt and never 
again destroyed. This is the “New Jerusalem,” the 
first city which will be built after the Divine model, 
and become the radiating center of spiritual forces, 
as it is the geographical center of the earth. “The 
Lost Tribes” were lost to their brethren, the Jews, 
and at last forgot their own identity, and were in¬ 
deed “lost” even to themselves. But the descend¬ 
ants of so great a people could not become an in¬ 
ferior race, and would always possess characteris¬ 
tics in language and customs which would mark them 
wherever they might wander. Indeed, it is now well 
known that their history and wanderings have been 
traced by unmistakable signs until their identity 
with the Anglo-Saxon race, of which we are a part, 
is fairly well established. This brainy, energetic, 
practical, but spiritual people, then, are the veritable 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 63 

“Lost Ten Tribes’’ of Israel. We do not propose, 
however, to enter into the details of this account. 
We wish only to trace the line of history, to show; 
our ancestry, from whom we receive our inheritance 
of mental and spiritual power. This race is best 
adapted to the work of completing a true social and 
governmental order. 

In the religious and social evolution of the human 
race, the highest line of movement is through this 
ancient nation. In their characters and in their 
prophecies were the most complete types and sym¬ 
bols of the new order of things, which is the final 
outgrowth of all historic ages. All these symbols and 
types find their hey in the nature of man . 

Each tribe was marked by distinct characteristics, 
and each stood for a basic truth and fundamental 
part of society. 

This was why God chose them to lead in the de¬ 
velopment of the Divine principles of life, which are 
at last to evolve a perfect race,— perfect in its indi¬ 
vidual characteristics, and through the law of human 
unity perfect in its social organism. This is the 
“Kingdom of God” set forth in the Bible. 

At a culminating period in the age of that 
people came, or was “sent,” Jesus. He offered 
to the Jews, who still existed as a nation, al¬ 
though they had lost their governmental power, 
the opportunity of again restoring this ancient na¬ 
tion; not by warlike prowess, but by the simple 
observances of the spiritual principles of life. Jesus 
sent his disciples to the “lost sheep” of the House 
of Israel, for he well knew that the twelve tribes 
must all be represented to complete the nation so 
as to restore the ancient order, and he undoubtedly 


C4 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

understood the law of that order and the result it 
is to work out in the earth. 

History tells us how he was rejected, and how 
the Jews immediately lost what little power re¬ 
mained to them as the result of their blindness in 
not recognizing the spirit of the age and the potency 
of the simple principles of righteousness and 
brotherly unity, to make them both great and power¬ 
ful in the highest meaning of the term. But their 
rejection of this hated man of questionable parent¬ 
age, so abominable to the Jews, sent them an ac¬ 
cursed and rejected people throughout the earth, to 
bear the natural consequences of their act. For the 
rejection or acceptance of great universal principles 
of truth by a people affects the race universally for 
good or evil during the ages that follow. It is no 
light matter to a person or a nation to bear the 
responsibility of rejecting any newly discovered 
truth or principle. Well is it then for human weal 
if human beings be wise enough to perceive a truth 
when it comes, and bring it to bear as it ought, upon 
human society and its institutions. Well for them 
if they are great enough and true enough to discern 
between finely phrased sentences and fascinating 
theories, and the clear statements of ultimate truth. 
No people can escape the results of accepting or re¬ 
jecting any truth or principle. 

After the death of Jesus appeared another great 
prophet who had been one of his disciples. He wrote 
a new Revelation, or prophecy, mostly in symbols. 
Its symbolism concealed its interior meaning from 
the people until the time should come when the 
human mind would be able to perceive the principles 
involved and the possibility of their application to 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


65 


earthly affairs and institutions. This is the order 
of evolution. The burden of prophecy, which cul¬ 
minates in our day, is the sealing of 144,000 of the 
people in tribes under the names of the twelve tribes 
of Israel; afterward of a multitude 4 ‘which no man 
can number.’’ What does this mean? Was it the 
fancy of a disordered brain, or had the mind been 
in that rare and exalted condition where it saw and 
heard great things in the realm of causation? But 
farther, John saw that “Holy City, the New Jeru¬ 
salem, coming down from God out of heaven, pre¬ 
pared as a bride adorned for her husband,” “Having 
the glory of God, and her light was like unto a stone, 
most precious, even like jasper stone, clear as crys¬ 
tal.” The New Jerusalem had “twelve gates, and at 
the gates twelve angels and the names written 
thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of 
Israel.” 

Have we a right to treat this as a beautiful but 
meaningless fancy ? Theologians have sought in vain 
for its solution, and make no attempt to explain it. 
But Science has entered the domain of Religion and 
gives a real Theology and a clear explanation of 
these symbols. The principle or law of the tribes 
and of the New Jerusalem, lies deep in the nature of 
God and of man. Here is the salvation and here the 
long looked for redemption of woman. Not only of 
woman, but through her, as the gestator and moulder 
of mind and character as well as the body, shall the 
race be redeemed. Women are the mothers of men 
as well as of women. Woman shall make or mar her 
son or daughter; to make true, as she is fitted by 
nature, education and right environment, to affect 
the mind of the new being whom she clothes with 


66 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


flesh; or to mar, by being unfit for so great a work, 
or being condemned to evil environments. 

‘ 4 The seed of woman shall bruise the serpents 
head,” runs the ancient prophecy, but it is a mis¬ 
take to confine this to the one man, Jesus, for when 
woman comes to an understanding of her own powers 
and functions, she shall bring forth a divine race of 
men and women. Her ages-long degradation is 
near its end. Her power, so long used only tremb¬ 
lingly, and often only in ignoble ways, by playing 
upon the vanities and passions of men — to gain by 
intrigue what should be hers by right — her power 
will be felt and recognized as the saving, conserving, 
organizing force; a power which gives life, and 
through which comes not only the human organiza¬ 
tion, but its mental and spiritual power. 

The New Jerusalem is called a bride and seems 
most distinctively feminine, because here woman’s 
special forces and functions find their first recogni¬ 
tion and place in government and in all the great 
activities of society. And this was first perceived 
and stated through the discoveries of science. 

What has science now to say about the twelve 
tribes of Israel and the New Jerusalem to make them 
of present interest and value to woman or to man? 
How do the tribes of ancient Israel concern our 
present splendid civilization, you will ask. It is the 
law of recurrence. It is the demonstration of the 
old “saw” that “history repeats itself,” for the evo¬ 
lution of the race may in some respects be compared 
with spiral cycles; i. e.> at each revolution of the 
ages the race returns near its place of starting, but 
always a little farther on or up. 

In this law of recurrence and in the facts as pre- 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


67 


sented in human history, science finds a thing so 
wonderful and significant in the law of the tribes 
that to my mind there has never been a scientific dis¬ 
covery in this age nor in any other of such significant 
importance, or of such social value to the human 
race. It is the sum and center of all human interest, 
of all that concerns human society, human govern¬ 
ments, or the modes and forms of human life. It 
forever fixes woman’s place and shows her to be an 
equal factor with man in all the departments of so¬ 
ciety and of government. 

Woman must go hand in hand with man in all the 
activities of life; she has already began to perceive 
this in a limited way. She is seeking recognition in 
politics as a necessary expression of her natural 
right and as a tardy act of justice on the part of men 
toward her. But she needs to have a more definite 
idea of her place in politics and in government before 
she will be able to induce man to yield to her this 
natural right. 

It is not enough to demand it as a piece of justice, 
which it truly is. It is not wise to introduce woman 
suddenly in a disorderly way into politics and thus 
make her the competitor of man; this only perpetu¬ 
ates the law of force, creates antagonism and inten¬ 
sifies those already existing. 

It will be difficult for man to consider her as any¬ 
thing but an interloper and interfering force in his 
own special domain, except it can be clearly shown 
that she does not seek to compete with him at any 
point, but that she does seek to organize a new and 
co-operative force in definite and lawful ways, in 
politics and government, in harmony with him. She 
must be able to show that this will result in benefit 


68 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


to man and not only be no injury, but a positive 
blessing to woman. She must also be able to state 
what her place shall be in a formal and definite way. 
This is the duty and office of science to discover. 
Our confidence in its power has not been misplaced 
nor our faith in vain. 

To understand and strictly define the position of 
woman in a true order of society it is necessary to 
understand the laws of the human brain and the dis¬ 
tinctive differences between the nature and faculties 
of man and the nature and faculties of woman. We 
do not understand any phenomenon or its rightful 
place in the order of things until we understand the 
ultimate force that produced it. The discoveries in 
mental science that solve this question (which we 
will presently state in part) have made a scientific 
form of government possible. Professor Huxley 
said in 1871 that i 6 the organization of society upon 
a new and purely scientific basis is not only practical 
but the only political object worth fighting for.” 
Professor Youmans, in the Popular Science Monthly, 
in 1872, said, “ Complex and difficult the study of 
human nature may be, but it is imperatively de¬ 
manded by the exigencies of the age.” “We are 
deafened by the cries of political and social reform¬ 
ers, but here is where we must begin if anything 
valuable is to be accomplished.” 

Eight here is where science has achieved her most 
splendid victory, by giving an exact analysis of the 
faculties of the human brain and of the modes of 
action in individual, social and governmental life. 
Thus we find the law of the tribes, which we promised 
to state. 

The brain is a wonderful organ. The secrets of 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 69 

its action have been slow of discovery. Strange that 
this organ and instrument of the mind which meas¬ 
ures all things in the heavens and the earth, should 
have been so tardy of discovering the laws and pro¬ 
cess of its action, or to have so lately analyzed its 
own faculties. The reason for delay was that the 
brain is the most complex of all known objects and 
the least open to observation. 

i ‘ The human brain is constructed upon the 
mathematical plan of an ellipse,’’ says the Book 
of Life. “A circle has a single center 4 of force, 
but an ellipse has two centers of force. A circle 
with its single center has no internal powers of 
movement or of life. An ellipse, with its two 
centers, has these powers. These two centers 
are polar to each other. Polarity involves the 
concert of opposite tendencies—the attractive 
and repulsive, receptive and positive, masculine 
and feminine. ’ ’ 

It is the vibration of these polar forces which cause 
all action throughout all earthly and heavenly 
spheres, says the Book of Life. This is equally true 
in the minutest forms of life. All mental action is 
produced by these polar forces in the human brain. 
The two centers in the brain are the centers of mas¬ 
culine and feminine (or polar) forces, which have 
united in organizing the human being. The back 
center is the center of sensation. As the sensitive 
nerves predominate in woman the back center is 
strongest in her, and is contributed by her as her 
share in the performance of her maternal functions. 
The front center is the center of muscular motion, 
and as the muscular system predominates in man, 
the front center is strongest in him, and is the con- 


70 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


tribution of man toward organizing the new human 
being. It is by the action of these polar forces (con¬ 
tributed by both parents) that the materials are 
gathered and arranged into organic form. It is the 
law and method of organization in every form of 
organic life. 

The social organization should follow the same 
law. “ The brain is the seat of all animal life. Every 
bodily function receives its power to act from the 
brain.’’ The brain is also the seat of all spiritual 
life. From and through these centers of spiritual 
power in the brain every faculty of the human mind 
receives its power to act. These centers are not only 
the centers of organizing power in forming the body, 
but of all thought. There could be no activity or 
power to create either thought or being, but for these 
two polar, responsive and co-operative masculine 
and-feminine centers of force in the human brain. 

As in the physical organization of the brain the 
structural fibers center here, so in the mental organ¬ 
ization. There are twelve groups of faculties which 
also radiate from these brain centers. The faculties 
have each a distinctive location in the brain, the re¬ 
sult of the operation of a mathematical law. The 
special traits and characteristics of each group of 
faculties characterized one of the tribes of Israel. 
This fact was observed and stated by the great his¬ 
torians Kitto, Ewald, Milman and other historians 
of the Jews. 

The names of the twelve groups of faculties are: 

Art, which characterized the tribe of Simeon; 

Letters, which characterized the tribe of Gad; 

Science, which characterized the tribe of 
Ascher; 



WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


71 


Culture, which characterized the tribe of Nap- 
thali; 

Eeligion, which characterized the tribe of 
Levi; 

Marriage which characterized the tribe of 
Judah; 

Familism, which characterized the tribe of 
Beuben; 

Home, which characterized the tribe of Zebu- 
Ion; 

Kulership, which characterized the tribe of 
Joseph; 

Labor, which characterized the tribe of Dan; 

Wealth, which characterized the tribe of Ben¬ 
jamin ; 

Commerce, which characterized the tribe of 
Issacher. 

Each group subdivides into three faculties. The 
functions of each group are dual, or masculine and 
feminine. The masculine quality dominates in man 
and the feminine in woman. Both elements have 
entered into every part of each organism through the 
united forces of the parents. The primary, or dual, 
division of the faculties are as follows, the first 
column being masculine, and the second feminine.* 
The group of 

Art, or Simeon, subdivides into Form and 
Color; 

Letters, or Gad, subdivides into Memory and 
Attention; 

Science, or Asher, subdivides into Reason and 
Inspiration; 

*For further elaboration see The Book of Life: Sivartha. 


72 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Culture, or Naphthali, subdivides into Amity 
and Reform; 

Religion, or Levi, subdivides into Faith and 
Love; 

Marriage, or Judah, subdivides into Devotion 
and Luxury; 

Familism, or Reuben, subdivides into Parenity 
and Reverence; 

Home, or Zebulon, subdivides into Appetite 
and Feeling; 

Rulership, or Joseph, subdivides into Dignity 
and Laudation; 

Labor, or Dan, subdivides into Justice and 
Industry; 

Wealth, or Benjamin, subdivides into Defence 
and Economy; 

Commerce, or Issacher, subdivides into Loco¬ 
motion and Aversion; 

These are the different departments of society and 
government in a complete organization, which Israel 
represented and will represent. We readily recog¬ 
nize that in each of these groups as given the mascu¬ 
line faculties do dominate in man and the feminine 
faculties dominate in woman. 

Every brain organ, or faculty, produces a distinc¬ 
tive kind of wants that have a natural right to the 
means of satisfaction or of expression. A particular 
kind of collective wants of society arises from each 
of the mental organs, and we can know the number 
and kind of wants only by knowing the number and 
kind of faculties in the brain. Knowing these facul¬ 
ties, their location and modes of action, we can read¬ 
ily determine the number of officers and their dis¬ 
tinctive functions in the ideal or scientific form of 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


73 


government suited to the needs of human beings in 
facilitating their intercourse with each other in every 
line of activity. 

A government, to be truly representative, must not 
only represent human beings as a mass, but as each 
class of wants has’its distinct or producing cause in 
a mental faculty; this faculty must be represented in 
government by an officer. To illustrate: In forming 
any society, however small, we now choose a presi¬ 
dent, because of a universal law that all action in 
organic structures takes place around centers. “It 
is a mathematical necessity that the actions of so¬ 
ciety must turn upon its officers or centers .’ 9 A sec¬ 
retary is elected because we have a faculty of mem¬ 
ory and desire to have our proceedings remembered. 
We choose a treasurer because of a faculty of econ¬ 
omy. And so, a complete form of society must have 
as many departments and officers as there are groups 
of faculties in the brain and their resultant needs in 
society. Every want in society is the natural out¬ 
growth of some faculty. The feminine faculties 
marking distinctively the feminine nature and char¬ 
acter can be thoroughly represented only by woman. 
The masculine faculties being just as distinctively 
masculine can be well or perfectly represented only 
by man. These twelve groups of faculties being both 
masculine and feminine, should be represented by 
men and women officers. There being twelve groups 
of faculties in the brain, there should be twelve de¬ 
partments in government to represent them. Being 
both masculine and feminine there should be twelve 
men at the center of the nation to represent the mas¬ 
culine side of the faculties, as heads of departments 
which conduct the business of that department, and 


74 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


twelve women to represent the feminine side, whose 
duties are to perform feminine functions. These 
surround and pivot upon the two brain centers, each 
of which requires an officer to represent its functions, 
which are masculine and feminine. This would give 
us at the head or center of the nation a woman to 
represent and execute the will and needs of woman, 
‘and a man to represent man. This in the place of 
our man president, with a wife whose duties relate 
only to the social needs in and of the president’s 
home, which revolve around him alone as its chief. 
She now has no relation to the nation. She does not 
represent organized womanhood. 

Now we have to enforce this plan, the most striking 
fact and discovery. But it is part and parcel of the 
law of the tribes. In the Hebrew language, the lan¬ 
guage of Israel, in which Yehovah gave his name to 
Moses, each letter has a number which determines its 
meaning. The number of the name Jehovah is 26. 
But none of the rabbis have ever known its meaning 
but have always held it to be the ‘ ‘ Mystery of God. ’ ’ 
However, they have always held a belief that it would 
be revealed in the day or age when Israel should be 
restored. John, in his Revelation, foretells the time 
as being one of the events which we perceive are cul¬ 
minating in our day when the “Mystery of God” 
shall be “finished.” These facts of science com¬ 
pletely disclose the meaning of this sacred Name, 
and the “Mystery of God” is finished. In the vision 
of St. John he says, “A throne was set in heaven 
and (One) sat on the throne, and he that sat was to 
look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone.” The 
word (one) in the sentence is an interpolation, and 
the colors of the jasper and sardine stone are mascu- 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 


75 


line and feminine. For the law holds good among 
the colors that prevails in every realm of nature. It 
is a well-known fact in science that colors are mascu¬ 
line and feminine, or complementary to each other. 

This, John said, was a vision of that which was to 
be hereafter, and although it was represented as 
being in heaven, and was undoubtedly an actual 
vision of Yehovah and the officers of the Celestial 
Government, it represented the form of government 
which is to be the center and model of all earthly 
governments, because it is based upon the nature of 
God and man, and for this reason is a subject of 
prophecy. 

The capital city will be at Jerusalem, “for the law 
shall go forth from Zion,” and a new city, the form 
and architecture of which will be based upon the law 
of the Divine and human mind, will be built upon 
the site of the ancient city of historic fame. This is 
what is meant by the “New Jerusalem,” — not a 
phantom city in the skies, but an earthly city, ex¬ 
pressing in its external form and in its internal har¬ 
monies, the laws of the Divine and human mind. But 
here we find that the equality of woman with man 
as an associate ruler was foretold or foreshadowed 
in the ancient days. David, in his prophetic Psalm, 
picturing the beauties of the Messianic age, says, 
“Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold 
of Ophir.” These two central rulers, or officers, will 
administer the government, not as autocrats, but as 
chosen rulers, by virtue of their eminent fitness, rep¬ 
resenting the functions of the brain centers, which 
are called by physiologists the “Throne of the 
Brain.” A man and a woman representing each tribe 
and also each dual group of faculties as manifested 


76 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

in the departments of society will be associate offi¬ 
cers in each department of government, men officers 
representing and exercising the masculine functions 
and the women officers the feminine functions. This 
makes the twenty-four rulers which John saw around 
the throne, and with the two central men and women 
officers which represent the throne of the brain, makes 
the significant 26, the number of the name Yehovah— 
the finished mystery of the ages! It is clear at once 
that God has not done a piece of guess work in the 
creation of the human race nor made them a part of 
creation only servilely related to Himself, but in very 
deed His children, inheritor of His nature and facul¬ 
ties. Nor is the “New Jerusalem” a beautiful but 
meaningless fancy, nor the tribes of Israel a fable, or 
a fact of history no longer affecting us. The struc¬ 
ture of the New Jerusalem and the law of the tribes is 
in accordance with eternal laws which lie in and are a 
part of the nature of God, and in the nature of the 
human family created in the image of the Celestials— 
male and female created He them. This is why it 
concerns this age. 

It is not in the smallest degree necessary for 
woman to establish'her ability to do the same kind of 
work that man does or has done. The sphere of 
woman is equal to that of man and fully as important. 
The natures of the two are so linked and interwoven 
and so equal in necessity that there should be no 
quarrel between them as to supremacy. It is only 
a question of defining accurately the difference be¬ 
tween them and the functions each should fill, 
not only in politics and government, but in all the 
social and industrial activities of life. This is, of 
course, the work of science, already done. All the 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 77 

employments of society are dual; that is, eaeli has 
a masculine and feminine side, as well as have the 
offices of government. That is, one side of gov¬ 
ernment is more suited to the distinct characteristics 
of man and the other side to woman. This necessi¬ 
tates the specialization of woman’s labor, or her call¬ 
ings in any field, and the creation of new places for 
her as she develops capability in any direction, so as 
to provide for the co-operation of man and woman 
in every department of life. The rapidity with which 
women are entering new fields of labor as the active 
assistants of man, and their indisputable efficiency, 
which is freely acknowledged, is an encouraging evi¬ 
dence that they are not only eminently fitted'for many 
widely varied callings, which have been developed in 
the last generation, but that they will steadily advance 
until at every point they will fill with satisfaction to 
all concerned the feminine side of every work. 

By organizing society and government upon a sci¬ 
entific basis we can secure opportunity for the full 
exercise of all the faculties of both man and woman, 
without the functions of one interfering with the 
functions of the other, but by their co-operation in 
orderly ways the work of the world will be accom¬ 
plished harmoniously, and the currents of human 
life be united and blended with the central forces of 
the universe. Thus will the Divine order and har¬ 
monies become established as permanent conditions 
of human life upon earth. 

Then a new scale of harmonies will be added to the 
music of the spheres, and the morning stars shall 
again sing together, and the sons and daughters of 
men become the sons and daughters of the living 
God; then shall they unite in the greatest anthem 


78 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


of praise ever sung, greater and more joyous than 
in the day when Yehovah laid the foundations of the 
earth. For then will His persistent mental and 
spiritual forces have wrought among human beings 
until His Divine purpose has been completed and, as 
in the beginning the 44 Logos ’ 1 was with the “Theos” 
in establishing the earth, so in this day the 4 ‘Logos” 
has united with the 44 Theos” and laid the founda¬ 
tions of the Divine government and the Divine age 
has come. 

In the Book of Revelation there is a prophecy of 
One coming whose name is called the 4 4 Word of 
God.” In the original Greek it reads the 44 Logos of 
the Theos.” The 4 4 Logos of the Tlieos” is the sci¬ 
ence of God, or- perhaps a better rendering, the 
science that proceeded from God. In this first scien¬ 
tific explanation of His nature, the true science of 
God, we find the true relation of woman to man 
in the Divine order of things, is as his counterpart 
and inseparable companion. Shall we now conclude 
with Huxley and with Youmans that a scientific form 
of government is worth striving for? Since here is 
the inevitable destiny of woman about to be fulfilled 
in this true and natural order, not only her own sal¬ 
vation, but that of the entire human race is made 
manifest. 4 4 For when the Most High divided the 
nations their inheritance, when He separated the 
sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people ac¬ 
cording to the number of the children of Israel.” 

The tribal order, then, in its completion, with a 
scientific explanation of the natural principles of 
order which it expresses, is the natural order, since 
all human beings have the same faculties and can 
arrange themselves in an orderly system, according 


WOMAN IN RESTORED ISRAEL 79 

to their dominant characteristics. Through this law 
and arrangement, or law of arrangement, the 
different departments of society can intelligently 
co-operate. 

These same laws are universal and are at work 
in every realm, from the world in process of creation 
and evolution, to the eternal heavens where every 
law is in perfect operation. We now see the perti¬ 
nence and force of the prayer that Jesus taught us, 
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as 
it is in heaven . 7 ’ For here is being wrought the 
same order and principles of life that exist in heaven. 
John, Isaiah, Ezekiel and other prophets foresaw 
this magnificent destiny of our earth in her new 
spiritual creation. But, following the method of 
evolution and creation, it is the province of the mas¬ 
culine mind to project the creative organic principle, 
as in these scientific discoveries which was the work 
of mam But it is the province of woman, when she 
receives the seed of the kingdom and conceives by 
its potency the idea of a complete social organism, 
to gestate and bring forth the finished organic 
structure. 

Lift up your eyes and behold. See ye not the 
oncoming host? See ye n*ot the Daughters of the 
living Eternal Mother, -advancing to claim their 
Divine heritage? The gateway to her lost Eden is 
opened. The flaming sword which guards the way to 
the Tree of Life is sheathed and the fruitage of that 
tree is hers to eat that we may live forever more. 
Henceforth in the dignity of her pure self-possessed 
womanhood she will stand beside man, free. Free 
because — as freedom consists in right relations, she 
is free, being rightly related to him — his equal and 


80 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

companion in the councils of the nations and in the 
great activities of the world, as well as at the fire¬ 
side. Let woman but proclaim this law of universal 
right and fundamental principle, and the walls of 
prejudice, superstition and weakness, which now 
hedge her in, shall fall as fell those ancient walls of 
stone before the army of Joshua before Jericho. 
She shall enter into her possession and so shall come 
her kingdom — which is but another name for the 
Kingdom of God—where after all the ages of the 
dominion of man, the functions of woman will find 
their complete exercise as the real companion of 
man. Micah exclaimed, with the enthusiasm of pro¬ 
phetic sight: “And thou, 0 tower of the flock, the 
stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to thee it shall 
come even the first dominion, the kingdom shall come 
to the Daughter of Jerusalem. Arise and thresh, O 
Daughter of Zion, and I will make thy horn iron and 
thy hoofs brass,’’ saith Jehovah of Hosts, in whom 
we find the prototype of man and woman—the ap¬ 
proaching ideal of our glorified humanity.* 

Given at the Woman's Building, World's Fair, 1893. 


♦For detailed statements read The Book of Life. 






























The Hebrew Bible is the primer, the text book, so 
to speak, of social evolution, because it is the most 
scientific, and the most inclusive. Whatever scien¬ 
tific research has done, or found, or may find, it 
can only develop in detail the germinal principles 
contained in this ancient Book. It begins with the 
genesis of Worlds, the genesis of human races, the 
genesis and fall of the earlier nations, the prophetic 
rise and fall of the more nearly modern nations, as 
the Medo-Persian, Greco-Roman and others. 

The Bible describes the rise, fall and restoration of 
Israel, and leads to the finale of human personal and 
national development in the perfection of its order 
as shown in the restoration of the twelve-tribed 
nation of Israel, and the rebuilding of the pattern 
city—the New Jerusalem—which is in its plan of 
structure the most perfect plan for unifying all the 
forces and for conducting all the interests common 
to all the people. In this city rests the plan of Mu¬ 
nicipal, as well as National Government. 

This Book gives account of the Intelligent forces 
concerned in Creation, and more than intimates their 
dual nature as manifested in all forms of life cul¬ 
minating in the final and perfect marriage. 

The Bible cites the causes which led to the decline 
and fall of kingdoms and civilizations, and foretells 
the establishment of a Kingdom of righteousness, 
which shall overtop and take the place of these basal 
kingdoms and civilizations, and that “it shall stand 
forever.” It declares that even death shall be des¬ 
troyed and life Eternal on this earth shall be the 
destiny of its inhabitants, in a perfected condition 
and in a perfect Order of Society. 


82 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


The question of the nature and character of God 
can never become old and uninteresting, especially 
in these days of widespread denial of this Supreme 
Person. 

There are those who hail with gladness any new 
knowledge, reasonable to the mind, as scientific facts 
must always be, to set the mind on stable founda¬ 
tions. The great wave of denial that has swept over 
us in these later days has set on a quest a new spirit 
of enquiry for the truth. 

Dogmatic Theology, which clothes God with im¬ 
possible or unexplained attributes, has given rise 
to, and force to, new schools of thought and teaching 
just as dogmatic in their ways as are the old schools. 
The idea of impersonality has great attraction for 
the minds of inexact thinkers, and that idea meets 
us continually in modern literature. Indeed, so at¬ 
tractively is presented what may be termed the 
pantheistic idea, that it seems temporarily, with 
some minds, to destroy all the natural conceptions 
of God as having personality or individual Being. 

One would hardly expect this particular kind of 
skepticism among any of the varying forms of 
spiritism, for the devotees of these cults assure us 
that the spirit retains the same personal form and 
characteristics after it has separated from the body 
that it possessed in the flesh. 

Why these devotees, then, should deny the facts of 


83 


84 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Bible history is incomprehensible to us. They thus 
discredit the Bible, while yet referring to it and quot¬ 
ing from it at their pleasure to bolster up their 
doctrines. 

ffe certainly have a right to as much confidence 
in Bible statements of spiritual facts as we have in 
those of the experiences or occurrences of today. 
So we wish to here consider, quote exactly and deal 
fairly with some of the statements in the Bible, as to 
this Being whose existence is disputed, and to com¬ 
pare these statements with supporting scientific 
discoveries. 

The Biblical history gives account of a spiritual 
Being who gives his name as Yehovah in the mani¬ 
festations of His presence and power among the 
Israelites. He appeared to them in the form and 
with the appearance of a man. It is irrational to 
deny this fact. It might be consistent to deny the 
whole account and to assert that the entire history 
is the result of hallucination. But this would in¬ 
volve the denial of all spiritual manifestations, for 
the experiences of those times and of these but re¬ 
peat each other, differing only in the character and 
the grade of the intelligencies manifested. One must 
perpetually rebel against the inconsistency of ap¬ 
plying the name of this Being to a formless force. 

The Bible is so large that seldom are people ac¬ 
quainted with more than a few texts, so thus, trust¬ 
ing their religious teachers to give its purport, it is 
easy for both teacher and hearer to fall into false 
philosophies regarding its actual teachings. The 
quotations here given are from the first five Books 
of the Bible. These quotations can be easily ex¬ 
amined; the intervening history will prove addi- 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


85 


tional testimony that God, or Yehovah (both refer¬ 
ring to the same person, or power) was seen, heard 
and known as a person by the ancients. This can by 
no means be harmonized with any of the modern 
teachings that God is a formless force. 

The first quotation stands forever as an evidence, 
and as evidenced by the human species, that the 
types of both man and woman already existed in 
the realms of causation and that they originated the 
Adamic race. 

‘ 4 God said, ‘Let us make man in our image 
and likeness’, .... So God created man in His 
pwn image, in the image of God created He him, 
male and female created he them.”_ 

“And Yehovah appeared unto Abram and 
said: ‘Unto thy seed will I give this land,’ and 
there he builded an altar unto Yehovah who 
appeared unto him.” 

“And when Abram was ninety years old and 
nine, Yehovah appeared unto him and said: ‘I 
am Almighty God, walk before me and be thou 
perfect, and I will make a covenant between me 
and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.’ ” 
“And Yehovah appeared unto Abram in the 
plains of Mamre as Abram sat in his tent door 
in the heat of the day, and he lifted up his eyes 
and looked and lo, three men stood by him, and 
when he saw them he ran to meet them from 
the tent door, and said, ‘My lord, if now I have 
found favor in thy sight, pass not I pray thee 
from thy servant, let a little water be fetched, 
and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under 
the tree and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and 
comfort ye your hearts.’ ” 


86 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Then follows the account of the feast together, 
and the promise of the birth of Isaac. 

“And Sarah laughed, and Yehovah said, 
*Wherefore did Sarah laugh? Is anything too 
hard for Yehovah? At the time appointed I 
will return unto thee, according to the time of 
life, and Sarah shall have a son.’ ” 

It seems absurd to even assert this personality 
when these statements cannot be denied as showing 
persons conversing with each other as we do, and 
with as much intelligent purpose as our own con¬ 
stant human experience proves to have. 

The evidence is more apparent further on in the 
narrative where the reports against Sodom and 
Gomorroh are discussed. It is evident that Yehovah 
was one of the three men to whom Abram had just 
extended hospitality, for the text shows that Abram 
and Yehovah were in conversation alone, while the 
other two “angels’’ went about their business for 
which they came. 

“The men turned their faces from thence 
and went toward Sodom: but Abram stood yet 
before Yehovah.” “And Abram drew near 
to Yehovah and began pleading for the city that 
it should not be destroyed .... Yehovah went 
his way as soon as he left communing with 
Abram, and Abram returned to his place.’’ 

We cannot escape the conclusion that the two 
“angels” who came to Sodom to fulfil the mission 
of destruction, were two of the three men who, like 
ordinary human beings, partook of Abram’s hos¬ 
pitality, Yehovah being the third. As we are quot¬ 
ing only special parts in which Yehovah distinctly 
appeared as a person we must, of necessity, omit 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


87 


important parts of the history which confirm the 
fact. We advise those who are interested to read 
the entire account. 

It will be hard to harmonize the account with the 
idea that God is a formless force. That He is not 
everywhere present at all times as a person is clear 
from the fact that He “came down to see” if the 
reports brought to Him against Sodom and Go- 
morroh were true and from the fact that when He 
had made His own personal observations “He went 
His way as soon as He left communing with 
Abram. ’’ 

“And Jacob was left alone, and there 
wrestled a man with him until the breaking of 
the day. And he said .... 4 Thy name shall be 
no more Jacob but Israel; for as a prince hast 
thou power with God and with men and hast 
prevailed.’ And Jacob called the name of the 
place Penial, ‘for I have seen God face to face, 
and my life is preserved.’ ” “And God ap¬ 
peared unto Jacob again, when he came out of 
Padam Aram, and blessed him. And God said 
unto him ‘I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and 
multiply,’ and God went up from him.” 

The sentence so often quoted by recent writers to 
prove that God is an impersonal force and not a 
person nor individual is from the third chapter of 
Exodus where He speaks to Moses and says, “I Am 
that I Am .... Go tell the people that I Am hath 
sent me unto you.” But this is immediately fol¬ 
lowed by the statement: 

“Thus shalt thou say unto the children of 
Israel: ‘Yehovah, God of your fathers hath 
sent me unto you: Go gather the elders of 


88 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Israel together, and say unto them, Yehovah, 
God of your fathers appeared unto me/ And 
Moses said, “But behold they will not believe 
me, for they will say, ‘ Yehovah hath not ap¬ 
peared unto thee/ ” “And He gave the sign 
of the rod turned into a serpent ‘ that they may 
believe that Yehovah, God of thy fathers hath 
appeared unto thee / ” 

“And God spake to Moses and said unto him, 
‘I am Yehovah, and I appeared unto Abraham, 
unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God 
Almighty; but by my name Yehovah was I not 
known to them’/*. ... 

“And He called unto Moses and said, ‘Come 
up unto Yehovah, thou and Aaron, and seventy 
of the elders of Israel/ and they saw the God 
of Israel, And there was under His feet as it 
were the paved work of Sapphire stone; and as 
it were the body of heaven in its clearness.... 
Also they saw God and did eat and drink. 

“And Yehovah said unto Moses, ‘Come up to 
Me in the mount, and be there; and I will give 
thee tables of stone, and a law and command¬ 
ments, which I have written / And he gave 
Moses two tables of testimony, tables of stone, 
ivrittenwith the finger of God.”. .. .“And Moses 
turned and went down from the mount, and the 
two tables of the testimony were in his hand.... 
and the tables were the work of God, and the 
writing was the writing of God, graven upon 
the tables.” 

“And Yehovah spake unto Moses face to face 
as a man speaketh to his friend .”.... 

“I saw Yehovah sitting upon His throne and 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


89 


all the host of heaven standing on His right 
hand.”_ 

“I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, 
high and lifted up, and His train filled the 

temple.Mine eyes have seen the king, Ye- 

hovah of Hosts.”.... 

These quotations sufficiently show that the history 
always indicates God as a person in appearance 
similar to man. If this history is authentic it estab¬ 
lishes without possible cavil, a personal or individual 
Being, of whom we are an image. It also establishes 
the ignorance and inconsistency of these objectors, 
and at once calls upon them to refrain hereafter 
from using the name of this historical character as 
the name of a formless force. 

Yehovah was often accompanied by the visible ap¬ 
pearance of spiritual clouds, rays of light, and other 
evidences of spiritual force. Our knowledge of God 
as a character, or representative of principles, is 
drawn from this Book. We protest again that no 
person has a right to use the name of a Being al¬ 
ready known in history as a person, and apply it to 
a formless force having no structure and therefore 
no center of radiation. 

It is a wicked sentimentalism, for in the name of 
spirituality, it seeks to deprive God of His individu¬ 
ality and personality. The falsity lies in confound¬ 
ing the person of God with the spiritual force that 
emanates from Him, or with that universally diffused 
spiritual substance over which He exercises control, 
and which substance is indeed His Spirit. But, 
it is asked, how can a person having definite shape 
and circumscribed personal limits, have universal 
power over all the active forces of nature? By 



90 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

remembering the achievements of man,, we may 
understand how this is possible with the Eternal and 
Supreme Mind. 

How large was the man who drew lightning from 
the clouds, and made it obedient to his behests? Do 
men have to be of immense size or a formless es¬ 
sence when they talk across the seas and encompass 
the earth by means of this obedient force? The 
President at Washington only touched a little button, 
but it was the signal for the opening of the great 
Exposition at New Orleans. It was only a little 
child who touched the spring with her baby fingers 
that set in motion the forces which made the tre¬ 
mendous explosion in the “Hell Gate passage” and 
opened up the way for ships to pass, as Lincoln once 
said, “unvexed” to the sea. Does size of person 
have anything to do with the operation of these 
terrific forces made benificent by the directing mind 
of man? 

Yehovah did not create these forces in the sense 
in which we understand creation. They are co¬ 
existent with Himself—intrinsically similar in na¬ 
ture. One by one science is unsealing the great 
secrets of nature, and is finding the methods by 
which God operates . 

Man constantly increases his knowledge and con¬ 
trol of these forces and employs them for the benefit 
of the race. In all this he is but exercising faculties 
that are an inheritance from his Divine parentage. 
Science is the Divine High Priest for the new age; 
it has entered the “Holy of Holies,” and bears forth 
the secret of the Sacred Name hidden from un¬ 
spiritual man. Men and women are rising to Divine 
heights, where the glory of the “Sun of Righteous- 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


91 


ness” greets watching eyes, and illumines the hither¬ 
to darkened soul and brain. We now find within 
the human organism the copy and reflex in form, 
function and faculty of the Divine organism. The 
human race, like a sleepy god, is rising from the 
lethargic slumber of ages, and is shaking off the 
stupor that has so long bound it. 

Man is already beginning to make the “New 
Earth.” He has every force of nature and all the 
powers of life at his command. He is assisted by 
myriads of the hosts of God, who are come down to 
prevent any failure on the part of man to usher in 
the Divine age. This is the work set for this coming, 
or millennial age. Because the work of man is so 
great does that mean that he is, or ever will be as 
great, or know all that God knows? Verily, no! 
That is by no means involved in the facts stated. 
But Yehovah says through Moses and the prophets, 
that the whole world is to become full of the knowl¬ 
edge of Yehovah. Through Jeremiah He says: “Let 
not the wise man glory in his wisdom; neither let 
the mighty man glory in his might; let not the rich 
man glory in his riches, but let him that glorieth 
glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth 
Me.” 

Yehovah and God are one and the same Person 
and power, as we have seen. We are in the midst 
of the most tremendous spiritual awakening the 
world has ever seen. The new light that has come 
has the transient effect of blinding the comprehen¬ 
sion and of covering the facts of form and person in 
the realm of spirit. As the spiritual eye becomes 
accustomed to the light, we will perceive with clear- 


92 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

ness objects now invisible and, as in the other days, 
God will again be seen. 

Max Muller in “Anthropologic Religion” said, 
“If I were asked what I consider the most important 
discovery which has been made during the 19th 
century with respect to the ancient history of man¬ 
kind, I should say it was the simple etymological 
equation: Sanscrit—Dyaush Pitar, Greek—Zeus 
Pater, Latin—Jupiter, Old Norse—Tyr. It implies 
and proves that not only our own ancestors and the 
ancestors of Homer and of Cicero spoke the same 
language as spoken by the people of India, but it 
implies and proves that they all once had the same 
faith, and worshipped the same supreme Deity 
under the same name which meant Heaven or 
Father. Ancient history, ’ ’ Muller says, ‘ ‘ has become 
as completely changed by that one discovery, as 
astronomy was by the Copernican Heresy.” If asked 
what are the greatest discoveries of the 19th cen¬ 
tury—greater even than Max Muller’s, but in har¬ 
mony with it, we would answer, the discoveries 
which give us the meaning of the name Yehovah. 
These discoveries, described in the Book of Life, by 
Sivartha, are the greatest, because while they show 
the same facts which Muller has enriched the world 
by giving, they also unfold what is meant by the 
Kingdom of God, or Kingdom of Yehovah, and our 
relation to it. 

In 1885, Dr. Nathaniel West, an eminent clergy¬ 
man, delivered a course of lectures in Chicago, by 
invitation, on the personality of God, which engaged 
the attention of thousands eager to find some answer 
to the philosophies of the day which have created 
such a wave of denial of this personality. Having 


PERSONALITY OP GOD 03 

studied the question in the light of these scientific 
discoveries, we read his lectures with deep interest. 
From them we culled two statements which served 
as a text for an article The Inter Ocean printed in 
its columns at the time. We quote it as a basis for 
further argument upon the subject of the personality, 
or individual being of God, and of His nature and 
to further set out the reason why it makes a differ¬ 
ence whether we believe one or the other idea. Dr. 
West asked, ‘ ‘ Where shall we go to learn that the 
ultimate reality is a real, personal, moral being, 
the first cause of all things, the supreme object 
of human knowledge, faith and worship? Where, 
if not first of all to self, and self consciousness? 
And if self is real, personal, moral, contingent ex¬ 
istence, not its own cause, then in the knowledge of 
self we are to find the knowledge of God.” 

Here we find two postulates: First, that through 
self or self consciousness we learn that there is a 
supreme personal, or individual Being, possessing 
all the attributes and characteristics of man, and 
whom we call God. Second, that in the knowledge of 
self we are to find the knowledge of God. From 
either of these postulates we must affirm: First, that 
for man to have a consciousness or knowledge of 
himself, and thus of God, is to have a consciousness 
or knowledge of an absolutely perfect type of him¬ 
self, or God. Second, for woman to have a conscious¬ 
ness or knowledge of herself, and thus of God, is to 
have a consciousness of an absolutely perfect type 
of herself, or God. We then have a consciousness 
or knowledge of a plural or dual God, or two beings 
under the common name of God (Elobim) or Yeho- 
vah (both names being plural) representing the two 


94 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

types, the typical man and the typical woman, under 
the common or plural name of man. So far, how¬ 
ever, we have only consciousness of ourselves and 
thus of God, since knowledge is something definitely 
ascertained. But since we now have the science 
of man and of living forces by Sivartha, we know 
through the knowledge thus ascertained that God is 
the eternally existing and perfect type of man, that 
is, the dual man, embodying in Himself the same laws 
and forces, the same powers, faculties, attributes, 
and the same shape and form as man. 

‘ 1 Man is a microcosm,’ 9 says science, that is, with¬ 
in him resides and acts all the kinds of forces of the 
universe. Man is related to every part of the uni¬ 
verse. This does not assert that man is therefore 
as large or as widely extended as is the universe. 
A great man is one in whom these powers and forces 
have found unusual development and expression. 
He is not necessarily large as to the limits of his 
person. 

In God resides the absolutely perfect embodiment, 
expression and power of control, of all existing 
forces. Here is the perfect Mind, the perfect Vision, 
the perfect Love, the perfect Will, the perfect ex¬ 
pression of every faculty. But this does not make 
him of immense size, nor a formless diffused es¬ 
sence. He is not personally present everywhere, but 
is present through the universality of His Spirit 
and consciousness. This we will discuss later. 

Man has a latent power of spiritual sight. In 
many cases this spiritual sight is already partially 
developed, so that occurrences and scenes at a great 
distance may be perceived by the spiritual vision 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


95 


of man. This is a frequent, if not a constant, human 
experience. 

In God this power is perfect. He observes 
through this power of perfect spirit vision what is 
taking place on this planet, also everywhere in the 
universe. ‘ 6 From the place of His habitation He 
looketh upon all the inhabitants of the Earth.” Ps., 
33, 14. So said the Seer of Israel. 

Science tells us that the brain is full of little cells. 
These are little eyes. They are the avenues through 
which the spirit and brain perceives. In the un¬ 
cultivated brain these are not sensitive to the fine 
impressions. This is one difference between the 
highly developed and the low qualitied brain. As 
the gross materials are eliminated the mind becomes 
more refined and these little eyes are clearer and all 
avenues become sources for receiving and trans¬ 
mitting the most delicate impressions. 

To again quote from Dr. West: “In the knowledge 
of self we are to find the knowledge of God.” Con¬ 
sciousness of self is not knowledge of self in any 
clearly defined sense; but consciousness must lie at 
the basis of knowledge. We may have consciousness 
without knowledge, but we cannot have knowledge 
without consciousness. When we speak of God as 
“He,” using the masculine term, we do so in the gen¬ 
eric sense. Among the discoveries already alluded 
to we find some facts of vast interest and importance 
which throw a brilliant light upon the subject of the 
nature of Yehovah and man. These also explain 
facts of history and of language. They prove that 
not only is God our Father, but they reveal to us that 
the sweetest name and relation we know came be¬ 
cause there is a heavenly Mother. How wondrous 


96 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

tlie knoweldge! We can now understand the unut¬ 
tered and unutterable longings of our hearts which 
none but a heavenly Mother’s love can satisfy. We 
know this by discovering the meaning of Yehovah’s 
name which expressed His character. This Name 
has always been regarded by the Jews as having a 
secret significance. Its number is 26. In the He¬ 
brew language in which it is written each letter has 
a number which indicates that letter’s meaning. 
This has been regarded as the “Mystery of God,” 
which they believe will one day be revealed. John 
the Revelator, speaking prophetically said, “The 
mystery of God is finished.” Is it indeed finished? 
Let us enquire further. 

The Book of Life says, “Within the meaning of 
this name and number lies the sum of all truth 
which relates to man. It is the masculine and femi¬ 
nine attributes of man and of Yehovah. The human 
brain, which is an image of the Divine brain, in its 
structure as well as in its attributes, contains twelve 
groups of faculties, each dual in its nature, making 
24. The names of these groups are: Culture, Art, 
Religion, Rulership, Science, Marriage, Labor, Let¬ 
ters, Familism, Wealth, Home, and Commerce. 
Each of these subdivides into classes or parts, with 
dual, or masculine and feminine functions. The 
brain also has two centers. These are the throne 
of the brain, as the physiologists call them, because 
all the faculties and fibers center in them. These 
12 dual groups of dominant faculties and their dom¬ 
inant centers count twenty-six—the number of the 
name Yehovah.” 

Try and realize this significant fact! Each brain 
is dual, that is, it includes both masculine and fern- 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


97 


inine faculties in its structure, the masculine dom¬ 
inating in man and the feminine in woman. 

It is a fact proved by all the laws of nature that 
all the creative forces in the universe are masculine 
and feminine, or positive and negative. The Hebrew 
characters or letters which form the word Yehovah, 
and which are regarded by the Jews as involved in 
the secret of the Name, are two vowels and two con¬ 
sonants, or two masculine and two feminine letters, 
representing the repeated duality, or the mother 
and father, and the daughter and son. The family 
on earth is a copy of the family in heaven . THERE 
IS AN ETERNAL DAUGHTER AS WELL AS 
AN ETERNAL SON! 

We now understand why we say “Our Father 
who art in heaven,” only to wonder why we do not 
say 1 ‘ our Father and our Mother who art in heaven. ’ 9 
But when we come to realize, to make real to our¬ 
selves—that declaration in the very first chapter 
of the Bible, that we are in the image and likeness 
of God, male and female,—our souls will be flooded 
with the illuminated consciousness of our Divine 
origin, nature and destiny. 

But, why, you ask, does it make any difference to 
us whether this be true or not? Why concern our¬ 
selves about the question at all? There would per¬ 
haps be no need when common consciousness tells 
us of a heavenly parent, even though unseen, whose 
love we have felt in our hearts, but for two things: 
First, it has become a doctrinal belief, constantly 
urged, that God can and will no longer reveal Him¬ 
self in visible person on earth and that death alone 
can introduce us to His sublime Presence; Second, 
because of the revival of ancient philosophies which 


98 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


teach the non-existence of such a Being. But a 
greater reason why we should concern ourselves is 
that it is the law of the universal order and lies at 
the foundation of Social Order on this Earth . This 
is the key to the problems of our modern civilization 
and is absolutely needed to begin the new super¬ 
structure on permanent and unchangeable founda¬ 
tions. We will state a few scientific and philosophic 
principles which prove—even though we disregard 
all revelation, ancient or modern—the fact of an indi¬ 
vidualized Being as permanently existing without 
whom no intelligent and orderly universe can exist. 

Whatever the relation between that subtle thing 
which we call spirit, or life, and that coarser sub¬ 
stance which we call matter, and which is or seems 
to be inert, if indeed it has life or power of life within 
itself, until that vivifying invisible something 
changes it to living forms, forms of ugliness or 
forms of beauty, we know, at least, that it 
is caused by spirit acting upon matter. But we 
have as a certain fact that so far as has been de¬ 
termined this spirit or life principle obeys certain 
laws, methods and processes. In order to make 
this clear, as it appears to my mind, we transcribe 
from a correspondence with a valued friend whose 
work for the world is beyond all praise, except that 
she has taken occasion to deny this personality, 
while still asserting principles which can have no 
force except as they affect individualized beings, 
spirit or human. In a letter to her, we said: “I 
quoted in my letter to you, with full agreement, your 
statement that the human race proceeded primarily 
from a Divine source.” We then added, “like in 
form, function, and faculty, hence individual, hence 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


male and female, like its human image." We were 
here trying to say that the original source and cause 
of human existence was in or from individual beings 
—not simply from unorganized spiritual essence. 
In other words, that human parenthood was but a 
lesser grade,—imaging its parent source—liko in 
form, function, and faculty , 

Individual organized being must always produce 
that which is like itself, since it is under a living 
force. Creative energy is, and must be, exercised by 
creative, or parent beings. At least we know no 
other method. The impersonal or unorganized 
spiritual substances from which organized beings 
are drawn or formed, contain in solution, a descrip¬ 
tive term, the elements which enter into organized 
being, just as the material substance from which 
the physical body is formed also contains the ele¬ 
mental substance of the physical body. We know 
that the body develops from germinal cells and that 
these cells proceed from parent organisms; and 
that unless they are living (in other words possessed 
of spirit) and possessed of attributes which enables 
them to feed on, or draw the supply from, the parent, 
no organized body can appear. It is just as cer¬ 
tainly true-that no life of the higher types can main¬ 
tain itself beyond a few seconds to a few minutes 
when utterly deprived of the air we breathe. Science 
has long ago told us that every elemental substance 
needed in life is represented in the human organ¬ 
ism, therefore their natures must be similar; but 
the unorganized elements cannot with scientific ex¬ 
actness be called parental, for the parent has or¬ 
ganic structure like its product. As scientific men 
vary in their conclusions in regard to the number 


100 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

of primal substances while some declare that all are 
at last resolvable into one primal substance, we may 
well hesitate to use the term God as having rational 
or exact application to this diffused essence, since 
the term God belongs to a historical character, who 
was often visible, and in appearance like the human 
form. 

Through the telegraph, the telephone, but more 
notably through the wireless telegraph, science is 
showing, and through future discoveries will more 
clearly show the nature of this all pervading unor¬ 
ganized substance which feeds our physical life, 
and that which feeds our spiritual life, and demon¬ 
strates the difference and the likeness between the 
impersonal and the personal being. The same Being 
whom history has declared to be personal, or indi¬ 
vidual, said, “Am I a God at hand, and not a God 
afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places 
that I shall not see him ? ’’ saith Yehovah. c 1 Do not I 
fill the earth V 9 saith Yehovah. Solomon also rec¬ 
ognized the all pervading nature of that Being whom 
he kneiv to be and have individual being as well, be¬ 
cause he had conversed with Him, for when he had 
finished the building of the temple, he exclaimed in 
the overpowering sense of the glorious presence of 
Yehovah, as the clouds filled the temple, “But will 
God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven 
of heavens cannot contain Him, how much less this 
house that I have builded?” David, in the 139th 
Psalm, utters his consciousness of the Omnipresent 
Being, “Whither shall I flee from Thy presence? 
If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there. If I take 
the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost 
parts of the earth, even there shall Thy hand lead 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


101 


me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.” It is cer¬ 
tain that there is no more need to deny the personal 
or individual Being of God because the universe is 
filled with impersonal force or spirit, than to deny 
our own distinct individuality for the same reason. 
It would be as rational to deny the sun of our solar 
system because the sunlight pervades our atmos¬ 
phere and makes physical life in its various forms 
possible upon this planet. Nor is it correct to call 
the sunlight parental in its nature because it stimu¬ 
lates the earth and the life of the seeds implanted in 
it, causing them to grow upon this planet. To con¬ 
clude. The radiant spiritual forces of the universe, 
acting according to the polar law, culminate, or cen¬ 
ter in organized Being or Beings, eternal and self 
existent . They contain within themselves by virtue 
of organized structure and unified dual forces the 
power to create from the spiritual substance that 
emanates and radiates from their persons. This 
substance which fills the universe possesses in \X s 
essence, we may say in solution, the same nature 
and characteristics, and is in fact identical with, 
the centralized structural Beings from whom it pro¬ 
ceeds, or emanates. 

This is that spiritual substance or spiritual atmos¬ 
phere, through which God, the Divine Mind, com¬ 
municates thoughts or influences the human mind or 
intelligences in any realm or through which human 
beings affect each other by vibratory movement, 
creating lines of force by the same manner of law 
that communications are made through telegraph, 
telephone, or wireless telegraphy. It is from this 
unorganized substance that the human soul or spirit 
is organized, and is the same substance. Soul, or 


102 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

Spirit organizes the body by the Spirit’s inherent 
organic nature, that is, its polar laws. Personality, 
or individual being, does not indicate, nor involve 
limitation, as some believe; instead, it concentrates 
power, and gives intelligence by virtue of structure . 
The book which contains the history of this person 
or Being whom we call God, says in the very first 
chapter, in the original Hebrew, that “Elohim cre¬ 
ated.” The second chapter says, “Yehovah God 
formed man.” .... These two terms evidently refer 
to the same power and both words being plural 
speak the same truth, that man—male and female— 
were created by a Divine or natural law and process, 
and are precisely as like the Divine originals as chil¬ 
dren are like parents, and descend from them by a 
universal creative law. 

The fact and truth above stated does much more 
than indicate the inherent Divineness in original 
humanity and in humanity’s creative power. If also 
shows a fact by which we may affirm a law, well 
known in science, of the continuous association of 
dual forces in every particle of manifest life. 

The idea which we wish to emphasize is, that the 
same dual forces acting throughout nature, from the 
atom to the highest intelligence in the universe to 
the Divine, or ideal man and woman—center in two 
Beings, our Father and our Mother in Heaven, 
whose separate lives unified by a perfectly acting 
law forms the God-head, the Eternal Yehovah, the 
perfect source of organized Being, and like whom 
the human man and woman are a manifest expres¬ 
sion, Divine in origin, Divine in likeness, and Di¬ 
vine in destiny. ' 

May this consciousness and knowledge so vivify 


PERSONALITY OF GOD 


103 


our inmost souls that the possibility of perfecting 
humanity and establishing that high and holy order, 
the Kingdom of God on earth, may become a pas¬ 
sion that shall never cease until the fruition of that 
Kingdom is accomplished, and until the prophecy 
of Job that in our flesh we shall see God, and the 
prophecy of John that 4 ‘They shall see His face, and 
His name shall be in their forehead,” shall be ful¬ 
filled. In that time of illumination we shall know 
indeed that we are the children of our Father and 
Mother in Heaven. 

The power to know, and the wisdom to use knowl¬ 
edge are the supreme and undeniable characteristics 
of personality. That the Creator of the universe 
has shown these characteristics cannot be denied. 
Nature both conceals and flaunts her secrets. Mani¬ 
fest nature always tells the same story of duality. 
She creates nothing otherwise. Male and female in 
the image and likeness of original eternal Being. 
When known, no amount of argument can add to 
these manifest facts. As our consciousness opens 
to this fact let us chant paeans of praise to Yehovah, 
the great creative Intelligence, whose children we 
are. More than this, let us exercise the powers 
thus conferred upon us Holily—, as God is Holy. 
Thus shall all the secrets of nature be open to us and 
we shall know and understand the necessity for 
obeying the laws of Heaven’s great Order, that is, 
His Kingdom. 


9 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


In considering the question of Government, how 
can we determine, first of all the best and most per¬ 
fect form and method? What standard have we by 
which we may judge? Upon what basis shall we build 
our judgment? Who are affected, or, for whom do 
we seek to erect or organize the thing we call Gov¬ 
ernment? and what are the natural relations of 
woman to it? These are a few of the questions we 
must ask before we can make intelligent answer, and 
answer we must have. The whole Earth is travail¬ 
ing to bring forth her seventh child, the Millennial 
age, when a perfect system and form of Govern¬ 
ment is expected to prevail. 

That great Jurist, Blackstone, said, “All the laws 
of society derive their authority mediately or im¬ 
mediately from the laws of nature .’ 9 

W. H. Seward said, “Would you re-enact the laws 
of God? You have no right to enact any other.” 

Dr. Maudsley said, referring to the nervous sys¬ 
tem, “Were it not well if man in his social life could 
contrive to imitate this excellent organization?” 

According to these eminent authorities, we can 
only determine the best and most perfect form and 
method of human institutions by its harmony with 
natural law. But anciently, Moses, the greatest of 
all lawgivers, said, in giving the Mosaic law, “This 
commandment which I command you this day fs not 
hidden from you, neither is it far off. The Word is 


105 


106 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou 
mayest do it.” He meant that it was natural, there¬ 
fore according to natural law. So, we ask, What 
standard of natural law have we, then, by which we 
may judge, and upon what basis shall we build our 
judgment ? 

We again quote recognized authorities. 

Prof. Huxley said: “The organization of society 
upon a new and purely scientific basis, is not only 
practical, hut the only political object worth fight¬ 
ing for.” 

Prof. Youmans, in the Popular Science Monthly, 
said: “Complex and difficult the study of human 
nature may he, but it is imperatively demanded by 
the exigences of this age. We are deafened by the 
cries of political and social reformers, but here is 
where we must begin if anything valuable is to be 
accomplished.” But Moses, under the direction of 
Jehovah, organized the twelve tribes of Israel into 
a nation, preserving the tribes separate and distinct 
in their national unity, as if in some way, in the 
mind of God and In the natural characteristics of the 
people, this were the best form for providing for 
their national needs. Indeed, Moses plainly said that 
this was God’s distinct purpose in arranging national 
order. 4 ‘ He set the bounds of the people according to 
the number of the children of Israel.” It becomes 
apparent, then, that the twelve-tribed order or ar¬ 
rangement of a nation in twelve departments, in some 
way expressed the Divine idea of form and is the 
standard anciently set before us which science now 
gives explanation of as a natural basis of judgment. 

These authorities we quote, declare for science 
and a knowledge of the laws of human nature . But 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


407 


1900 years ago a writer in onr awn Bible declared 
that “In the beginning was the Logos ( i . e., Word), 
and the Logos was the Theos,” or God. Other 
eminent authorities, both ancient and modern, give 
the meaning of Logos as Science, or Season. The 
Revelator prophesied of a great One coming and His 
Name, he said, is called the Logos of the Theos. Our 
English translation gives it as the Word of God. 

Clearly then, we may consider from both these an¬ 
cient and modern writers that science will lift a 
standard of judgment and lay a foundation upon 
which we may build for all the ages to come, which 
can never be superseded nor overthrown. This 
standard and this foundation cannot be superseded 
because its basis is in the nature of both. God and 
man; by Reason and knowledge, God laid the found¬ 
ations of the heavens and the earth and all things 
therein. He is the beginning and end of all science . 
Who are affected by or for whom do we organize the 
thing we call government and what is its object? 
Surely, surely, it is for human beings of both sexes 
of all grades and conditions *and to secure their wel¬ 
fare and the harmonies of life. We must reason 
naturally that the only way to determine the best and 
most perfect form and method of government is to 
have a scientific knowledge of the nature and facul¬ 
ties of the beings for whom government exists. But 
the angel, when he measured the city of the New 
Jerusalem, told John that the measure of fhe Eternal 
City, coming down from God to the earth, was the 
“measure of a man.” This was the wisdom of one 
who knew the measure of man and who knew that all 
parts of the city, its form and arrangement, corres¬ 
ponded to the faculties of the human mind and their 


108 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

arrangement in the brain and body, and so make 
possible the fulfillment of the supreme promise of 
the ages among all the nations of the earth. This is 
because the human organism is built upon the same 
mathematical principles which exist Eternally in the 
mind of God and in the same form of organic struc¬ 
ture as is manifested in the human image of the 
Divine. 

We have seen with these recognized authorities, 
that a true system of government must be based upon 
natural laws, and further, that the number twelve 
must form its numerical basis of structure. 

Where shall we find a statement of these natural 
laws which shall form the basis of a true social order 
and governmental structure and which shall tell us 
with the unerring precision of scientific knowledge, 
exactly comparable to Revelation, the detailed plan 
and method so that we may build therefrom, what re¬ 
lation woman bears to it, and what her position and 
functions are and must be in a scientific system of 
government! We know of no other statement than 
the discoveries of Sivartlia. These discoveries will 
lead us out of our present state of confusion into one 
of order and harmony, a state which can only be 
achieved by a systematic organization of all the 
departments of society, so that every interest shall 
have definite place for action and expression. 

Sivartha, whose discoveries in the constitution of 
man, began in 1859, and have been carried on until 
the present day, says in his Booh of Life, “The laws 
of the human constitution include the only true laws 
of society. Each part of society is a direct product 
of some mental faculty.’’ Then, to understand the 
laws of the natural structure of society we must un- 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


109 


derstand the structure of the brain. 11 The structure 
of the brain and the action of its faculties are gov¬ 
erned by the exact laws of geometry.”_ 

“The human brain is constructed upon the mathe¬ 
matical plan of an Ellipse. The ellipse has 

two centers of force, the Striatum and Thalmus, or 
Motus and Sensus. These are regarded by all phy¬ 
siologists as the two great centers of brain action. 
The Motus is dominantly Masculine and the Sensus 
Feminine.” These are the germs which have been 
contributed by both parents, and each are equally 
necessary in organizing the human body. But this 
is the law of all organic structures. The Social, or 
Governmental, organic structure must follow the 
same law in order to have a rightful place in the 
great scheme of the universe, i. e., woman and man 
must work unitedly here , each performing their own 
natural function in the national life, as in creating 
the home and family life and the race, which is the 
very first step taken toward the simple harmonies of 
race existence. After noting these statements we 
studied various definitions of government. Web¬ 
ster said: “A Government is a system of polity in 
a State, that form of fundamental rules and princi¬ 
ples by which a nation or State is governed, or by 
which individual members of a body politic are to 
regulate their social actions.” In John Austin’s 
“Analysis of Law,” he stated “That in every society 
of men there is a determinate body (whether consist¬ 
ing of one individual or a few or many individuals), 
whose commands the rest of the community obey. 
This Sovereign body is what in more popular phrase, 
is termed the government of the country, and the 



11# WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

varieties which may exist in its constitution are 
known as forms of government. ,, 

Prof. E. C. Wines, of St. Louis University, whose 
work, “Laws of the Ancient Hebrews,’’ tells us more 
nearly what we want to know. He said: “To form a 
free government it is necessary to combine the sev¬ 
eral powers in it; to adjust them to each other, to 
regulate, temper and set in motion those powers, to 
give ballast to one in order to enable it to resist an¬ 
other.” 

This better defines government as it existed in Is¬ 
rael, for Israel, though called a Kingdom, had a Re¬ 
publican form of Government. The definitions we 
have given are of human governments, but how shall 
we treat our subject of “God in Government” that 
there may be given in the compass of a short chapter, 
a clear idea of what science, as well as Revelation 
(for these agree)* has said on the subject? 

What shall be the basis of our enquiry? That is 
to say, where shall science obtain her data, or begin 
her investigations, that we may decide intelligently 
and with assurance that her researches have been 
conducted with the reverence and dignity becoming 
tlie subject? These matters are of eternal import. 
The weal or woe of an entire race is involved. Even 
the destiny of this planet itself depends upon whether 
we will have God in the Governments of the world, 
or whether human selfishness shall rule. In one way 
lies salvation, and in the other destruction. We 
hear it continually charged that at the best human 
governments have failed in their purpose. Human 
happiness or human weal have not been secured, else 
why all this outcry, this constant unrest, in every 
land among every people ? These tell the story of un- 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


111 


satisfied hopes and longings, the story of unfulfilled 
design. Is every human hope a false lure? We do 
not believe it is. We all expect a fruition some time, 
somewhere, in some other sphere if not here. But 
why not here? Is not this God’s plan and design? 
We do not believe He has tried to deceive His crea¬ 
tures. - * 

Have not His prophets truly spoken of His pur¬ 
pose? 

When we survey nature we find design every¬ 
where, from the tiniest weed up through all the beau¬ 
teous flowers, shrubs and trees, to the plan of the 
Universe, or the Omniverse—the all inclusive—plan, 
plan, design, design, everywhere. There is design 
in nature let him who will flout it. 

The human organism is the most noble and th© 
most notable of all of God’s creations, for it contains 
in its form and structure all the kinds of forces of 
the Universe. It is the crowning work of God and 
manifests the Divine in form, function and faculty. 
It is undeveloped, truly, but perfect in design. There 
is no land where this designed being is not found, 
from midget peoples in the wilderness, up to the 
most perfect races. Certain common characteristics 
are found among them all, making possible the or¬ 
ganic unity of every people, every nation and every 
tongue under the skies, all under one common form 
of Government. And this is God’s idea. God made 
them all in His own image and His own likeness, 
“Male and female created He them.” “One touch 
of nature makes the whole world kin,” said the poet. 
We have a right therefore to look for some common 
and natural standard by which to judge right and 
wrong in governments as well as in individual life. 


112 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

Governments must be held responsible for their acts 
just as individuals are held responsible. 

The Governments of this world are now being 
judged in the light of Science. They have not ful¬ 
filled God’s design. They have not fulfilled the plan 
which He gave in the beginning. This is very appar¬ 
ent to the student who seriously wishes to have the 
truth of things. The nations have entirely forgot¬ 
ten the one great design which Yehovali gave. Still 
they are all conscious of failure some where, some 
way, for all are still looking for a coming Kingdom. 
They are looking for a Kingdom which they may 
know as the Kingdom of God, and different from 
those that are and may be properly called Worldly 
Governments. What that coming Kingdom is to be, 
they know not, except that happiness and harmony 
are to rule. We do not seem to be able to picture this 
Kingdom to ourselves, except in general terms. A 
Scientist on finding the bones of a prehistoric animal 
may reconstruct it, but we cannot in this way take 
the noblest part of our present systems of govern¬ 
ments and succeed in making even a clever guess as 
to the plan and order of this coming kingdom, though 
we will find in all governments much that will have 
place in the kingdom that God prepared from the 
foundation of the world. And this must be so, since 
we are in His image it is impossible not to manifest 
some of His attributes in whatever we do. In order 
to understand His design, we must return to the 
original, we must enquire of the great Designer, and 
here in His Book—the Bible—in this open Book 
which all may read, find the forgotten plan of His 
Kingdom developing throughout the ages. Jesus 
announced it. He made it quite plain to His disciples, 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


113 


who straightway forgot it as soon as the Master 
was gone, and so the centuries have passed it by. 

The Holy Spirit has not entirely left us however, 
and will not leave us until the Spirit of Truth has 
finished its work and until the i 4 Kingdoms of this 
world have become the Kingdoms of our Lord and 
His Christ.” When this is come it will continue 
forever, because righteousness once established can 
never be overthrown. 

Isaiah, the prophet, looking with pre-scientific eyes 
down the ages tells us of a wonderful One, who is to 
sit upon the throne of David. He said, “Of the in¬ 
crease of His Government and of peace, there shall 
be no end upon the throne of David, and upon his 
Kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment 
and with justice from henceforth even forever.” He 
continued to say: “The zeal of Yehovah of Hosts 
will perform this.” Here is the key to the further 
opening of the subject, for Yehovah made a “cove¬ 
nant of salt” with David, “Ought ye not to know 
that Yehovah, God of Israel, gave the Kingdom 
over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his 
sons by a covenant of salt?” Can this promise fail? 
Here is a positive declaration that Israel’s kingdom, 
or David’s kingdom, is God’s kingdom. 

In our own marvellous age, wherein science has 
achieved more for the material interests of the world 
than throughout the entire previous history of the 
race, came a modest man, as men of science always 
are in the presence of Truth. This man remembered 
that Yehovah-Elohim had said that man, male and 
female, were created in their own image and their 
own likeness, thus emphasizing the fact that they 
were like God. Jesus himself had said—in answer 


114 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

to those who thought, as think many in this day, that 
God is an impersonal force—“He that hath seen Me 
hath seen the Father. ’ ’ That is, that God had per¬ 
sonal form like his own. He was not the same per¬ 
son, but was like the Father. We say he remem¬ 
bered this, and that the Father had givep gracious in¬ 
vitation to “Ask of Me the things concerning My 
sons and concerning the work of My hands, command 
ye Me. ’ ’ In obedience he asked His purpose and plan 
concerning the human race and found it in the com¬ 
mon nature of God and man. 

It is these discoveries concerning these truths that 
have furnished the text of all my writings. In a 
brief survey, one can only trace outlines of these 
great things, but enough, we hope, to indicate how 
much greater and liow much more definite are God’s 
plans concerning us than we have thought or be¬ 
lieved. We can see more clearly why Yehovah, Him¬ 
self, came to earth, visibly appearing to Moses and 
others, instructing not only in the laws in their 
ethical relation to each other—but that He also com¬ 
manded the organization of Israel into a nation of 
twelve tribes, they having carefully preserved their 
tribal identities and relations throughout their entire 
Egyptian captivity of, say four hundred years. 

God was very particular about His plans and pat¬ 
terns. He emphasized them as of great importance. 
He not only gave Moses the pattern of the Taber¬ 
nacle, but of all the instruments, each instrument 
as if it were important and had special meaning and 
special uses, and He said, “and look that thou make 
them after the pattern which was showed thee in the 
mount.” He was careful also that symbols of the 
twelve tribes were preserved, notably the breastplate 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


115 


worn by the priest; “and the stones/’ said Yehovah, 
“shall be with the names of the children of Israel, 
twelve, according to their names, like the engraving 
of a signet, every one with his name shall they be 
according to the twelve tribes.’’ 

David, with solemn adjurations, gave to Solomon 
the pattern of a house for the Sanctuary, which, he 
said, “ Yehovah made me understand in writing upon 
me even all the works of this pattern.” After the 
angel had shown Ezekiel the plan of the Temple, 
and measured all its separate parts, he adjured 
him, “Thou Son of Man, show the House of Israel 
and let them measure the pattern.” Then he de¬ 
scribed the city, the name of which is to be “Yehovah 
is there” (Yehovah Shammah)—this tabernacle of 
God which is to be among men—the same description, 
which over five centuries afterwards the angel de¬ 
scribed to John the Revelator. 

The Bible is the Booh of Israel! It contains the 
history, the law and the prophecies of Israel. It 
contains the plan, the design of God’s Government, 
by which we should know something of His intent. 
These plans and intentions were repeated again and 
again by the prophets. The Revelator, closing the 
canon, emphasized and pictured the New Jerusalem 
in his greatest vision. He emphasized God’s idea, 
purpose, plan concerning the human race and their 
destiny on this earth, because this design expresses 
the similarities between His own nature and charac¬ 
ter and that of human beings—of His children in fact 
whom he has put upon this earth—that through them 
the order of the Heavens, the design of Heaven, may 
be perfected here. Jesus stated it, “Thy Kingdom 
may come and Thy will be done on earth as it is in 


116 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Heaven,’ ’ as it is in the central realm of the universe, 
where the perfect order exists among God’s Hosts, 
who are perfect Intelligences. 

All the prophets since Israel’s downfall have pre¬ 
dicted her restoration in her twelve-tribed order. 
This is the central idea of their theme. Jesus so in¬ 
structed his Apostles when he left them to return to 
his home with his father in the heavens, whence he 
comes again. He had already promised them that 
they should reign with Him in His kingdom, in the 
new age, sitting upon twelve thrones judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel, as Princes or Governors. 

We must conclude that twelve-tribed Israel is sure¬ 
ly again to become manifested as a nation. Why? 
This is the thing also which science is now telling us 
about. One may rationally ask Why is not some 
Christian nation likely to serve God’s purposes as 
well as can Israel? We can well answer. Some of 
the people of the Christian nations are Israel. The 
Saxons are Israel. They hear the covenant name of 
prophecy. i( In Isaac shall thy seed be called.” They 
are Isaac’s sons — Saxons, blinded as we are to the 
facts . As we have a right to expect, with such ante¬ 
cedents—notwithstanding all their faults—they 
have noble ideals. 

They are a cosmopolitan people, the twelve tribes 
composed of twelve distinct kinds of people are in¬ 
cluded in the various Saxon nations. Besides, some 
members of these tribes wandered and settled among 
other nations, as China, Persia, Beloocliistan and 
Afghanistan. In these countries they have distinct 
communities through which they have preserved 
their identities as well as their customs and practices, 
to this very day. We see this in the newspapers fre- 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


117 


quently. But, unfortunately, they have lost God’s 
plans and patterns, and unfortunately we, too, have 
done the same, and have come to believe that this old 
history has no particular value to us except it may be 
for possible moral lessons. Neither they nor we 
have realized that when ancient Israel was organized 
into her twelve-tribed system, after she came out of 
Egypt, that there was the inception of a natural and 
scientific system and form of government. None 
have realized that it would persist throughout the 
ages in the great web of human life, often obscured, 
ever recurring, until this final time which our own 
age is closely approaching, and the reason for this 
order is becopning apparent and steps taken to re¬ 
store it through the scientific methods of our own 
day. 

Our own Saxon America forms no inconsiderable 
part in carrying out God’s purpose to this end, and 
though still lacking in fulfilling this design, all 
modern developments are tending toward a return 
to this old Order through the continual development 
in organizing new departments in government, which 
must eventually re-form and crystallize into a scien¬ 
tific system having 12 departments. This Bepublican 
form of government has near similarity to the an¬ 
cient republic of Israel both in principle and method. 
It was originally a commonwealth like Israel. Like 
Israel we use the modern “lot”—re-named ballot, 
(a development from the custom of using balls in 
casting lots in societies of various kinds.) 

The “lot” was Israel’s method of deciding, even 
the most solemn and important questions. They 
elected Yehovah Himself to be the civil head of 
their State. The story is in Exodus 19th. In our 


118 


WOMANS PLACE I'N GOVERNMENT 


style of speech Yehovah asked their “suffrages” 
through Moses, and made covenant, as our Presi¬ 
dents do when elected, except that Yehovah has 
power to fulfill on his part when we keep our cov¬ 
enants, such as no human Head of a State can have. 

Prof. E. C. Wines of the St. Louis University, has 
a clear account of this compact between Yehovah and 
Israel. Although the “lot” was not in this case used, 
Yehovah did in solemn and formal manner seek what 
we call the “suffrages” of the people, i. e ., their 
unanimous consent to His election, without which He 
could not have acted in making a covenant and an¬ 
nouncing a law which the people promised to obey, 
“All that Yehovah hath spoken we will do”, an¬ 
swered the people through Moses. 

With a concordance one can find that often, and 
upon solemn occasions the “lot” was used. Its evo¬ 
lution from “lot” to ballot of our times is extremely 
interesting. Yehovah was believed by the Israelites 
to be the secret power which decided the “lot”. 
David said: “Lift not up your horn on high, for 
promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from 
the west, nor from the south, but God is judge: He 
putteth down one and setteth up another.” (Ps. 75). 

Have we also forgotten God in our politics, as 
well as His plans and designs? 

The “lot”, or ballot used in our elections, if we 
act truly, trusting Divine wisdom, will in the elec¬ 
tion express God’s choice according to the growth 
and the needs of the time. That is His wisdom. He 
acts, and must act, according to human need and 
development. Things like this bring us closer in our 
thoughts and affections to our Heavenly parents in 


GOD IN GOVERNMENT 


119 


the common affairs of life and as we have seen in 
the previous papers in this book, His Kingdom in 
its fullness will organize all the legitimate interests 
of society—Woman having her own distinctive place, 
as associate and co-ruler with man. 




RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


PKOLOGUE' 

If you, my reader, were to be transferred to some 
other planet, upon which it had become your destiny 
to live among its inhabitants, to share with them 
your life, to be dependent upon their kindness and 
justice for happiness, and upon your obedience to 
the laws of life to maintain continued existence there, 
and if you found war, crime and misery of many 
kinds the accompaniments of a very complex*civili¬ 
zation, and if, most puzzling and baffling of all, the 
constant recurrence of birth and death smote you 
with a strange sense of instability, and if, in the 
midst of all these mutable experiences you found, or 
seemed to find indications of purpose and design 
unfulfilled, in the kaleidoscopic movements of the 
people of this strange, new world, would you not 
conceive it to be wisdom in yourself to attempt to 
learn if there really were any underlying principles 
which, if obeyed, would make the paths of life plain, 
bringing health, happiness and harmony instead of 
disease, death, misery and poverty? 

Now, especially, if this people had a sacred book 
which they held in great reverence as coming from 
the Parent and Creator of their world, sent to teach 
them the ways of life, and the systems, laws, methods 
and principles of government, even the detailed plan 
and pattern, the mode and spirit of living, so that 
their world might become like the great Father’s 


121 


122 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

kingdom, would you not at once begin to study this 
wonderful guide book to discover what had become 
wrong in this new world that had changed this 
original design? 

And would you not think this people most strange 
and inconsistent, foolish and unwise, if they thought 
they could continually disregard the Father’s in¬ 
structions, and then by worshiping and lauding Him 
with praises, gain the favor of this Parent who had 
sent this book of laws, to the intent that they might 
fully know how to carry out His plans and purposes 
to make a beautiful harmonious world? 

This picture presented itself to me very early in 
life. It seemed to me the true picture of the condi¬ 
tions of this world in which we live. So we began 
searching and hungering and thirsting to know and 
understand God’s plans and purposes concerning 
this earth until it became a passion which could not 
be satisfied by any dogmatic statements of religious 
or of scientific truths. 

I hungered and thirsted for the truth of the king¬ 
dom, and would be satisfied with nothing less. 

“Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall 
be filled.” 

At this time the Book of Life, by Sivartha, came 
into my possession. . 

It held the reply to our questions. We read and 
studied it with the avidity of a starving soul. 

This book, in conjunction with the Bible, which 
it illumined, became my text book. Under this light, 
with the accompanying Holy Spirit, we searched as 
for hidden treasures—hidden they had indeed been 
from self-blinded eyes throughout the centuries, al- 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


123 


though the language is so plain that the simplest 
mind, not otherwise confused, might read and know. 

The following pages will tell us a small portion 
only of the truths we gleaned through these studies, 
but enough, let us hope, to prove itself a “door 
ajar” into the more detailed and more complete 
statements of what is meant by, and what constitutes 
God’s kingdom. In pursuing these studies the 
following questions forced themselves upon me, and 
were potent factors in deciding that the discoveries 
and conclusions of science upon this subject were 
correct: 

What was the mission of Jesus Christ to the earth 
according to the Hebrew prophets and His own 
declaration that He came to fulfill the prophets? 

What did He mean when He announced the King¬ 
dom of Heaven, or Kingdom of God? 

Why did He choose twelve apostles and explain 
that they were to sit on twelve thrones and judge 
the twelve tribes of Israel in His kingdom? 

What relation does Christ’s kingdom bear to the 
Kingdom of Israel? 

Was He seeking to re-establish that old historic 
and really prophetic order and system of govern¬ 
ment, and if so, why? 

Why did the prophets declare that He should sit 
on the throne of David, “to order it and establish 
it with judgment and justice forever?” The throne 
of David was a literal one. 

Is the book of Revelation a series of fantastic pic¬ 
tures, or a credible and understandable part of tho 
book we are taught to revere ? 

Why were there one hundred and forty-four thou¬ 
sand of all the tribes of Israel sealed in tribes? 


124 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


What is the meaning of the marvelous picture of 
the New Jerusalem, with twelve gates, and at the 
gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, 
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the 
children of Israel? 

One asks in all sincerity of heart, and in hopes of 
awakening other hearts, what has this to do with 
Christ’s kingdom, God’s kingdom, or the Kingdom of 
Heaven; since they are evidently synonymous ? 

What was God’s purpose in creating this earth 
and putting a race of intelligent beings upon it? 

Has He been or will He be thwarted in His 
purpose? or can He only fulfill that purpose by trans¬ 
ferring the race from earth to some other sphere? 

Did He have some far-reaching purpose, co-ex- 
tensive with the life of the earth itself, in reference 
to the nation of Israel? 

What was it, and where shall Israel be found? 

Can one believe it possible that science can dis¬ 
cover natural laws which will settle, or aid in set¬ 
tling, these vital but neglected questions? 

If Jesus was the Logos of John’s Gospel, and of 
Revelation, may we not confidently look for scien¬ 
tific discoveries as the natural result of the develop¬ 
ment of reason, to enlighten the human mind upon 
these truths so long since given by Revelation, and 
yet not perceived by the darkened mind of man? 

Since God has endowed human beings with facul¬ 
ties, and their exercise made imperative by the con¬ 
ditions and environments of life, and since Jesus said 
the Kingdom is within, can there be any doubt that 
the faculties and their resultant activities, as we see 
them manifested in the world, have definite place in 
Christ’s kingdom? 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


125 


What place, then, has art, or commerce, or science, 
or wealth; what place has the home, family and mar¬ 
riage, what distinctive place has woman, what, in fact, 
has any and every possible legitimate interest of so¬ 
ciety to do with Christ’s Kingdom, and how must it 
affect the governments of the world? 

The answer of science to these questions assures 
me that the Bible is a pre-scientific book, and that it 
holds vastly more for the enrichment of the human 
mind, and development of the soul and character, as 
well as disclosing the final destiny of the earth, and 
its inhabitants, than the most reverent and enthusi¬ 
astic Bible lover has imagined or believed. 

For those who love and believe in Christ as the 
Saviour of the world, a sincere and earnest study of 
these histories and prophetic facts, a new and clearer 
light will dawn, showing how true it is that He will, 
indeed, be “Kings of Kings and Lord of Lords” 
in the new and coming age, when science, the Logos 
of Revelation shall have declared the way. 

“That which hath been is now, and that which 
is to be hath already been; and God requireth that 
which is past.”—Eccl. 3:15. 

*“The past has a claim upon us for just and con¬ 
scientious appreciation. It is as wicked as it is vain 
to attempt to sever the ties which bind us to the old 
world and make the civilization of elder days an 
important element in our own, and as every vice 
sooner or later brings its own punishment, the people 
which shuts its eyes wilfully to the teachings of his¬ 
tory will sooner or later find that even in its hard¬ 
est struggles it has been treading a path in which 
almost all the danger had been revealed long before. ” 

♦From the revision of Dr. Smith’s History of Greece, by Geo. W. Greene, 
A.M., historian. 


t 


THE RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 
or 

THE COMING SOCIAL ORDER 

The great social and political upheaval of the last 
half century presents in some respects a strange 
anomaly. Here is a Christian nation, a Bible reading 
people, who believe that God has spoken to the world 
in this book, and yet seem not to know or to believe 
that it contains anything that bears upon, or can be 
used as a practical guide through the mazes of 
modern reform. It is apparently not believed that the 
Bible contains any intimation of what a true order 
of civilization should be. To speak of God, or Jesus, 
or the Bible in relation to questions of government 
or political life and conduct, immediately stamps one 
as an old-fashioned sentimentalist or a religious 
bigot, with too little practical sense and too little 
knowledge of the needs and requirements of modern 
times to wield any influence. 

The thought of Jehovah as an active, intelligent 
Being, with direct personal interest in the political 
or governmental life of the nations of the Earth, 
seems to have faded from the human mind. To the 
ordinary conception, He sits enthroned in far-off 
glory, no longer needed by the sharp and brilliant 
minds who guide our modern ships of state. 

Even the Christ, to whom is accorded the divine 
honors once believed to belong to Jehovah alone, 


127 


128 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


has no recognized or recognizable influence upon 
the spirit or methods of our modern institutions, 
nor is, indeed, permitted to be acknowledged in our 
public schools. 

It has become the fashion among certain classes 
of so-called reformers to decry the Bible as an old- 
fashioned, practically obsolete book, quite out of 
touch with the civilizations of our day. “We have 
gone quite beyond it,” they say. “It ought to be 
put away reverently, as one treasures a relic of by¬ 
gone times—it has served its purpose, and so let it 
rest. ’ * But so say not we, so has not Science said, and 
so has not the spirit of Jehovah said, whose living ful¬ 
filled and unfulfilled words are in this ancient Book 
of history and prophecy. 

In the organization of the American nation this 
book was held to be the basis of the new civilization. 

In the Bible is the history of a great people, whose 
law and order of national life were given them from 
the mouth of Jehovah to Moses. 

This is an accepted truth among all Christian na¬ 
tions. Is it not then consistent in us to study the 
system of social order begun by this people under 
such sublime conditions? For although apparently 
a failure through their captivity and disintegration 
as a nation, the restoration and re-establishment of 
Israel, as a nation of twelve tribes, was continually 
prophesied by Israel’s teachers and statesmen. These 
prophecies were not the maunderings of unbalanced 
minds, nor were they a “narrow Jewish conception,” 
a term we often hear, which shows the meagerness of 
knowledge of the book criticised, a lack of sympathy 
with its spirit, without which true judgment can 
never be rendered in any case, and an utter inability 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


129 


to conceive the scientific principles which, working 
toward social order and its harmonies, produced this 
twelve-tribed nation, and must again restore, or 
reproduce a nation based on these principles of 
order. When we come to examine this book under the 
light of scientific discovery and illuminated research, 
we find a mine of buried truth of practical value to¬ 
day. The search-light of the Spirit is thrown upon 
these pages so long neglected and unstudied in 
harmony with the idea of the writers. Hidden treas¬ 
ures are being brought forth by those who have be¬ 
come imbued with desire to understand the purposes 
of God as expressed in this book. The world’s knowl¬ 
edge is being enriched with a new insight into the 
purposes which are being manifested in the develop¬ 
ment of history. 

Edward Hine, of England, spent many years in 
tracing the prophecies of the Bible, and in com¬ 
paring the results of his studies with secular history. 
He discovered to his astonishment and delight that 
captive Israel who had through so many centuries 
been called the “lost tribes” and about whom strange 
and fantastic theories had been woven, had wand¬ 
ered through Europe, scattered to the north coun¬ 
tries, left traces of their passage in every land 
where they had traversed or settled, and finally 
portions of them had moved on Brittany, fought with 
the original races, and also with the Angles and 
Romans, who had invaded that country, and after 
centuries of war, drove out the Romans and estab¬ 
lished peace. They then affiliated with, and by sheer 
force of character dominated the Angles, and by mix¬ 
ture with them, became the Anglo-Saxon race. 

Mr. Hine traced 47 of these identifications of the 


130 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Saxons with the lost tribes of Israel, and has con¬ 
structed a very elaborate theory upon them of fascin¬ 
ating interest. Although one may not at all points 
agree with him in his theories, the world is indebted 
to him for his valuable work of investigation and 
discovery, which has thrown a new light upon human 
history and what is of equal, if not greater import¬ 
ance, thrown a new light upon the prophecies of the 
Bible, proving that the intelligent being who com¬ 
municated these fore-tellings through human instru¬ 
mentality, fore-knew the process of development 
through which the race must pass to reach its fullest 
perfection and He also knew why the tribal system 
was important to an orderly development of national 
life and national economy. 

Mr. Hine did not see what this meant to the world 
beyond the fact that it was a fulfillment of prophecy, 
but it is none the less valuable to us for all that, and 
was needed to give added light to later discoveries. 
In the hurrying events of this time related works 
touch each other closely, often with no conscious¬ 
ness of their relation. So, soon after reading this 
book another book was written which clarified the 
whole subject, and showed upon a basis of scientific 
discovery the reason for the existence of this tnvelve- 
tribed nation, and the place it has filled and must 
continue to fill in the unfolding destiny of nations . 

This book, entitled the ‘ 1 Book of Life”, because 
it contains a series of scientific discoveries solving 
many problems of human life and destiny, which 
have been at once the hope and despair of the ages, 
was written by Dr. Alesha Sivartha, to set forth these 
discoveries, destined, to take rank among the most 
important scientific achievements of this age. For 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


131 


here we not only find the key to human destiny, 
but to the histories and prophecies of the Bible. 

Science has lifted the veil covering all nations, 
and shows us one unceasing purpose running 
through the history of the race of man, no less than 
through the great universal laws of nature. 

One is sure to be struck with the idea and pur¬ 
pose manifested in the history of Israel, when the 
mind stands where it can scan the future as well as 
the past, in the light of scientific knowledge and dis¬ 
covery, to find that all the developments of human 
history, centralized in and clustering around the his¬ 
tory of Israel, has tended toward a perfect social 
system in which all the powers of . mind and soul 
shall find expression in the life of society, and which 
shall include and federate all the nations of the earth 
upon one common center, under the name and banner 
of Israel, in the hand of the Saxon! 

This center, the pivot of international unity, will 
be Palestine, the land of sacred memories, because 
the most unique events of history have transpired 
there, and because it actually is the geographical 
center of the earth, the natural center of unity for 
all the inhabitants of the earth. 

While we must assume that Biblical history is 
more or less familiar to all, we are yet aware that up 
to this time small attention has been paid to some 
of its central facts, not realizing their relationship 
to present events, or to the future of humanity. It is 
my endeavor to show how directly the line has been 
traced to us, and what bearing it all has upon our 
political, social, and religious development. One 
need not apologize for quoting with great freedom 
from the unrealized portions of the Book. 


182 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

Beginning with Abram, who descended from Shem, 
one of the sons of Noah, in the ninth generation after 
the flood, is the real beginning of Israelitish history, 
although from Eber, the great grandson of Shem, 
came the title Hebrew, by which the Jewish people 
are distinguished to this day. 

The Hebrews may be said to be of tine dynasty 
of Shem, who was Melchizedek, king of Salem. He 
was still living in the time of Abram. The Bible tells 
us that Abram was born in 4 'Ur of Chaldees” in 
Chaldea, on the eastern side of the Syrian desert, 
and on the banks of the river Euphrates, probably 
about 1000 miles from Canaan in a direct line. 

The Bible record says, (Genesis 12) "Now Yeho- 
vah said to Abram, 'Get thee out of thy country, 
and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, 
unto a land that I will show thee, and I will bless 
thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a 
blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and 
curse him that curseth thee, and in thee shall all the 
families of the earth be blessed.’ ” 

So we see that the promise to Abram was as 
broad as the world! 

• Here, when the world was newly born from the 
flood, came this voice to this man already 75 years 
of age, Abram, who with his wife Sarah, and Lot his 
brother’s son, departed in obedience thereto, to go 
into the land of Canaan. 

"And Yehovah appeared to Abram and said: 
'Unto thy seed will I give this land.’ ” The record 
tells us in the beginning of the narrative that "Yeho¬ 
vah said”, leaving us with the inference that there 
was an invisible person who spoke. But now it says 
Yehovah appeared to him. We have no other way 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


133 


of interpreting this but that he was visible while 
uttering the promise. 

From all the accounts it is clearly evident that a 
spiritual Being having personal form similar to 
man, but with greater power and wisdom which com¬ 
manded obedience, appeared to many of the ancients 
and spoke to them in their own language. 

“ Again Yehovah said to Abram after he and his 
nephew Lot had separated, ‘Lift up now thine eyes 
and look from the place where thou art, northward 
and southward, and westward: for the land which 
thou seest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for¬ 
ever, and I will make thy seed as the dust of the 
earth .... and in thy seed shall all the nations of 
the earth be blessed.’ ” Genesis 17, says: “And 
when Abram was 99 years old Yehovah appeared 
to Abram and said unto him: ‘I am Almighty God. 

Walk before me and be thou perfect.As for me 

behold my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a 
father of nations. Neither shall thy name any more 
be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; 
for a father of nations have I made thee.’ 99 Genesis 
17:19. “And God said ‘Sarah thy wife shall bear thee 
a son and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will 
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting 
covenant, and his seed after him .... for in Issac 
shall thy seed be called.’ ” 

The history of Abram is replete with these in¬ 
stances of the personal visitations of a Being who 
bears the name Yehovah, and who came with coven¬ 
ants and promises which were for the well being of all 
the nations of the earth. 

According to promise Isaac was born,—he of whom 
Yehovah said “in Isaac shall thy seed be called.” 



134 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

Eemember this, for a people strong in the earth to¬ 
day, and continually growing in strength and power, 
(the Saxons—Isaac’s sons) bear this name. 

We hope a new inspiration will lead all to read and 
ponder this wonderful history as never before, since 
we can only touch upon related points in this chapter. 
To Isaac was repeated the covenants which God 
gave Abram. Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. 
But through Jacob was the line to descend. (Genesis 
27:23.) “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set 
upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, 
and behold the angels of God ascending and des¬ 
cending upon it. And behold Yehovah stood above it 
and said, ‘I am Yehovah God of Abram thy father, 
and the God of Issac; the land whereon thou liest to 
thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall 
be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread 
abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north 
and to the south, and in thy seed shall all the families 
of the earth be blessed! And behold I am with thee 
and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, 
and will bring thee again to this land, for I will not 
leave thee until I have done that I have spoken to thee 
of.’ And Jacob awaked and said ‘Surely Yeho¬ 
vah is in this place, and I knew it not . 9 9 9 

Again and again were these wonderful experiences 
repeated, culminating in the one in which God an¬ 
nounced the change of name from Jacob to Israel, 
adding this remarkable promise and covenant, “A 
nation, and a company of nations shall be of thee, 
and kings shall come out of thy loins, and the land 
which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give 
it and thy seed after thee will I give the land.” 

It is evident that this Being was proposing to es- 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


135 


tablish his purposes among the nations of the earth. 
We do not wish to be understood as saying that 
God did not emphasize the principles of personal 
conduct. This we know he did, for all the law and 
commandments bear testamentary evidence thereof. 

The character of a nation must always rest upon 
the character of its individual members. But this 
law was given to the nation and was its sign and seal 
of nationality; a nation through whom God’s King¬ 
dom, as the true order of society was to be manifes¬ 
ted. If we follow the history of Jacob, now to be 
known as Israel, of his twelve sons, Reuben, Simeon, 
Levi, Judah, Dan, Napthali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, 
Zebulon, Joseph and Benjamin, down to the time of 
Moses, not a scattered chapter here and there, but 
consecutively, we shall find it more fascinating than 
a novel. We shall then understand that God was pre¬ 
paring a nation for a special work in the world. This 
was no less than that of introducing upon the earth 
the order of the heavens, and its principles of both 
personal and national life. 

From among the nations He had chosen this in¬ 
significant horde of people, the Israelites, little more 
than barbarians, Egyptian slaves for centuries, to 
lead in the development of his purpose. He saw in 
them the germs of traits and qualities of higher 
spiritual and intellectual life than other nations 
then possessed. He saw this poor enslaved people 
were capable of higher and broader concepts which 
would make them more readily understand Him. 

Beside this it is quite evident that still another 
cause for this lay in the fact that the twelve tribes 
each possessed distinctive characteristics which made 
of them a cosmopolitan nation, an all-around people 


136 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


as we say, having similarities with all other people, 
which would enable them to develop every capa¬ 
bility and faculty of the mind as manifested in all 
that human society has yet achieved. 

According to the scientific discoveries found in the 
“Book of Life,” the mind has twelve distinguishing 
traits, or groups of faculties, one or more of which 
groups are dominant in an individual, or class of 
individuals. 

The twelve tribes were composed of twelve classes, 
or twelve varieties of people, in each one of whom 
certain groups of faculties, or characteristics were 
dominant, so that as each one of the twelve was 
distinguished from the others in this way, the twelve 
included the complete whole. Each tribe, being 
intended to perform certain functions peculiar to 
each tribe, was needed in their national life, to carry 
on the various classes of interests, by forming the 
twelve great general departments of government into 
a system through which the life of the people could 
be perfectly united by uniting all their interests, 
in one common system. 

Let us remember the Egyptian bondage of Israel, 
and the exodus in which Moses led them through the 
wilderness and across the Red Sea, and how he de¬ 
livered the law which he received in Sinai during 
the forty days he was with Yehovah, when he “des¬ 
cended upon it in fire.” Ex. 19:18. 

But we want to emphasize and quote this one 
point. Ex. 19:3. “When Moses went up unto God, 
Yehovah called him out of the mountain, saying, 

‘Thus shalt thou say to the house of Israel. 

Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed then 
ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all 



RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


137 


people. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of 

priests and a holy nation” 

This necessity for obedience, and the disastrous 
consequences of disobedience, was portrayed by all 
Yehovali’s prophets, but they all, in one voice, unite 
in proclaiming the future restoration of Israel, with 
her twelve tribes, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem 
‘‘upon her own heap.” 

In as few words as possible, let us summarize some 
of the salient points of her history. 

Moses led the people from Egyptian bondage and 
gave them a law which he received from Yehovah, in 
Mt. Sinai, under demonstrations of spiritual power, 
witnessed by all the people, such as has never been 
experienced in any other age by any other people. 

From the time of Moses, for several hundred years, 
until the time of Saul, there were judges who ruled 
over Israel. They were in communication with and 
instructed by Yehovah, who was their King during 
all this period. 

The entire nation had covenanted with him to ac¬ 
cept him as their King. The ruler of the universe 
had become the acknowledged ruler of Israel. 

His government, if based upon fundamental prin¬ 
ciples, as will be readily acknowledged by all stu¬ 
dents of the Mosaic law, and strictly obeyed, must 
necessarily, in the nature of things, make of them 
the greatest nation on earth. 

But they wearied of this Heavenly and invisible 
King, and desired to copy the manners and customs 
of other nations, and desired, like other nations, a 
visible king, with accompanying pomp and splendor. 

This was a virtual rejection of Yehovah as king; 
but they did not at once forsake him, they tried to 



138 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

satisfy their conscience by substituting worship for 
obedience . The religions world has ever followed 
their example. It is a grievous fault, well nigh fatal 
in its results to humanity. 

Yehovah had asked obedience and love, not wor¬ 
ship. He was striving to prove through them the 
beauty and practical value of righteousness and love, 
instead of hate and selfishness. 

These would have quickly elevated them to their 
high destiny. The centuries have witnessed the re¬ 
sults of their foolish choice. 

Saul was their first king. God gave him in an¬ 
swer to their demands, but his failure is recorded be¬ 
cause he trusted a familiar spirit instead of the 
infallible guide whom they had respected. 

With the second king, David, Yehovah made a 
covenant. It is recorded in 2nd Chron. 13-5. 4 ‘ Ought 
yet not to know that Yehovah, God of Israel, gave 
the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to 
him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt .” 

The covenant of salt was the covenant prescribed 
in the law. This covenant was of the most solemn 
and binding character. This “covenant of salt” has 
never been abrogated. It still stands. 

However broken and distorted Israelitish history 
afterward appeared, this must not be forgotten. 

And God provided that it should not be forgotten. 
For hundreds of years after we still find his prophets 
repeating this covenant with David. 

We first find in Isaiah the great prophecy which 
is always quoted as referring to Christ. It says: 
“For unto us a child is Dorn. Unto us a son is 
given. And the government shall be upon his shoul¬ 
ders. And his name shall be called Wonderful, 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


139 


Counsellor, The Mighty God (or Strongman, as 
later translators more correctly give it), Everlasting 
Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his 
government, and of peace there shall he no end upon 
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to estab¬ 
lish it, and uphold it with judgment and righteous¬ 
ness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Ye- 
hovah of Hosts shall perform this.” 

Jeremiah (33-25) says: ‘‘This saith Yehovah: 
‘If my covenant be not with the day and night, and 
if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven 
and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, 
and David my servant, so that I will not take of his 
seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob: For I will cause their captivity to re¬ 
turn and have mercy on them. ’ 9 9 

Still later, Ezekiel, more than 400 years after 
David’s death, tells us that Yehovah, speaking of 
and promising the return and reunion of Israel, says: 
“And David, my servant; shall be king over them; 

and they shall all have one shepherd.And 

my servant, David, shall be their prince forever.” 

We must ignore, deny, or accept this as a true, 
but still at least only partially fulfilled prophecy. 
Since, if the destiny of Israel is to be co-existent with 
the earth, as Yehovah has promised, it will require 
the developments of ages to complete it. To again 
quote Isaiah: “For as the new heavens and the new 
earth remain before me, saith Yehovah, so shall your 
seed and your name remain 99 

Israel is still in the process of development, until 
she shall learn to know, understand and prove the 
law of obedience, not as a matter of personal auth¬ 
ority, but as the prime necessity of life. She must 



140 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


also learn the law of human unity, which is assured 
under the tribal system. 

In the light of scientific investigation we now find 
this to be the natural system of social order in which 
all races of the earth shall be united in one organic 
whole, and this is to be the order of the Kingdom of 
God, of the Kingdom of David, of the Kingdom of 
Christ. These are all synonymous terms and all 
refer to the system which the rapidly developing 
conditions of our day point toward as the only 
solution pf the problems of this remarkable and 
significant age. The whole earth groans and is in 
travail until the spiritual birth of nations shall open 
in all men the consciousness of their relation to the 
eternal order which hastes not nor ceases until not 
only the earth, but all parts of the universe shall 
have become consciously in unison with each other, 
and with Yehovah, who is the Supreme center of all 
systems. 

Now, we turn back to facts which will help make 
the line of progress and development clear. 

Let us examine the matter with care and inter¬ 
est, for it is big with the destiny of the human 
race. 

After Davids death, his son Solomon succeeded 
him in the kingdom. He, the wisest of all men, be¬ 
came a tyrannical and sensual despot. This laid the 
foundation for the rupture of the Kingdom of Israel, 
which befel in the time of his son, Rehoboam, who 
was more despotic than his father. So that from 
then Israel was no longer united, but became a war¬ 
ring people. 

We find in 1st Kings, in the eleventh and twelfth 
chapters, that the Israelitish nation divided into two 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


141 


parts (luring tlie reign of Solomon’s son. The tribes 
of Judah and Benjamin alone remained to the house 
of David and Solomon. They became, or were 
called, the 4 ‘House of Judah,*’ the progenitors of 
the people whom we know as Jews. 

The ten revolting tribes formed themselves into a 
nation, under Jereboam. 

The story of how Jereboam became head of the 
new nation is told in this wise (1 Kings 11): 4 4 And 
the man Jereboam was a mighty man of valour: 
And Solomon seeing the young man, that he was 
industrious, made him ruler over all the charge 
of the house of Joseph. And it came to pass 
that when Jereboam went out of Jerusalem, that the 
prophet Aliijah found him in the way. And he had 
clad himself with a new garment. And they two 
were alone in the field. And Ahijah caught the 
new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve 
pieces, and said to Jereboam, take the ten pieces; 
For thus saith Yehovah, the God of Israel, 4 Behold, 
I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, 
and will give ten tribes to thee (but he shall have 
one tribe for my servant David’s sake).* ” 

4 4 4 Because that they have forsaken me, and wor¬ 
shipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, 
Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the 
god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked 
in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and 
to keep my statutes and judgments, as did David 
his father. . . J ” 

4 4 4 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s 
hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes 

9 9 9 

4 4 4 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all 


142 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, to 
keep my statutes and my commandments .... that 
I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, 
. . . . and will give Israel unto thee.’ ” 

These ten tribes under Jereboam were called the 
4 ‘House of Israel,” but they were also called “Eph¬ 
raim” because the half tribe of Ephraim led in the 
revolt. 

These two nations warred continually during the 
few hundred years they lived in the same country. 

Notwithstanding the counsel of Yehovah to Jere¬ 
boam, when he made him head of this nation, his 
people, the “House of Israel,” or Ephraim, soon 
discarded entirely the law and worship of Yehovah 
and became idolatrous. 

This led finally to their captivity by the Assy¬ 
rians, and placed them in “Haleh and Habor, by 
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,” 
that is, in Media. From this captivity they ap¬ 
parently never returned. 

These are the “lost tribes of Israel” of whom 
we have always heard. About 134 years after the 
captivity of the ten tribes, Judah, who had mixed 
idolatry with the worship of Yehovah, was also 
captured by the king of Babylon. For Yehovah 
said, “I will remove Judah out of my sight as I have 
removed Israel, and will cast off this city, which 
I have chosen, and of which I said, ‘My name shall 
be there . 9 ” 

This threat, which was followed by the.70 years 
of captivity of the Jews, has produced a stronger 
effect on the minds of Bible students, apparently, 
than all the prophecies of their national restoration 
made hundreds of years after this event. And the 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


143 


return of the Jews seems, to the casual thought, 
to have covered all that is to be expected in favor 
of Israel. 

Certainly blindness has happened in part to Israel, 
in the covering from their minds the glorious prom¬ 
ises and prophecies concerning that nation! 

Having traced points in their history which show, 
in part, the central facts of the disruption of their 
primal unity, and their division into two nations, 
we will quote from the thirty-seventh chapter of 
Ezekiel, to show what we are to expect. First, 
because Yehovah, whom we believe in as the foun¬ 
tain of truth, promised it, and because it has not yet 
transpired; and, second, because of underlying prin¬ 
ciples at work which are destined to re-create such 
a nation, and further than that, to create a universal 
order, based upon the structural principles involved 
in the twelve-tribed system. 

Let us carefully read from Ezekiel: “The word 
of Yehovah came again unto me saying, 4 More¬ 
over, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write 
upon it for Judah, and for the children of Israel, his 
companions; then take another stick and write upon 
it for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and f6r all the 
house of Israel, his companions: And join them 
one to another into one stick; and they shall be¬ 
come one in thine hand. And when the children of 
thy people speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not 
show what thou meanest by these things V Say 
unto them, * Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will 
take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of 
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his fellows, and 
will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, 
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in 


144 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

mine hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest 
shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say 
unto them, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will 
take the children of Israel from among the heathen, 
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every 
side, and bring them into their own land: And I will 
make them one nation upon the mountains of Israel; 
and one king shall be king to them all and they shall 
be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided 

into two kingdoms any more at all.And 

David, my servant, shall be king over them; they 
shall also walk in my judgments and observe my 

statutes, and do them.And my servant David 

shall be their prince forever/ ” 

This prophecy is the equivalent of all the other 
prophets here given, except the further description 
of the city of Jerusalem given by both Ezekiel, in 
the old Testament, and John the Revelator in the 
New Testament. 

This historical and prophetical fact having been 
established, we may now begin to look for the “lost 
tribes,’’ and from my intimation in the beginning 
of this paper, they are no longer “lost,” but we may 
think of ourselves as belonging to, or being lineal 
descendants of that remarkable people. 

In fact we are a nation of Israelites! 

The Jewish Chronicle y in its issue of May 2nd, 
1890, writing on the subject of the “Ten Tribes,” 
said: “The fate of the lost ten tribes is a mystery 
which has a peculiar fascination for some minds. 
While not a link is missing of the historical chain, 
so far as the remnants of the House of Judah is con¬ 
cerned, the Israelites who were subjugated by the 
Assyrian power, disappear from the* page of history 



RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


145 


as suddenly and completely as though the land of 
their captivity had swallowed them up. Beyond 
some vague reference to them in a passage of Jose¬ 
phus, no mention is made by any authentic writer of 
their surviving the destruction of their nationality. 
There has always been, however, an unwillingness 
to admit that a fate which had befallen so many na¬ 
tions has overtaken the ten tribes. Why should they 
have been less tenacious of their life than their 
brethren of Judah? Nay, the scriptures speak of a 
future restoration of Israel which is clearly.to in¬ 
clude both Judah and Ephraim. The problem then 
is reduced to its simplest form. The ten tribes are 
certainly in existence. All that has to be done is to 
discover which people represent them.” 

This discovery has been undoubtedly made. The 
Saxon is Israel! 

Mr. Hine, earlier mentioned, is only one of many 
who have followed the same line of research, and 
and who have all formed the same conclusions that 
the Anglo-Saxon, or to trace them to their source, 
the Saxons, from whom they sprang are descendants 
of Israel. 

One of the most interesting points of proof is 
that the word, or term, Saxon came, undoubtedly, 
from the phrase, “Isaac’s Sons,” as Yehovah said, 
“In Isaac shall thy seed be called.” We can see how 
natural and easy the steps in process of time from 
Isaac’s Sons to Saxons . 

The preservation of this name, as the name of 
a people, is certainly very remarkable and co¬ 
incident, and for me conclusive evidence, when ac¬ 
companied, as it is, with other evidences even greater 
than this. Edward Hine says: “We call into requisi- 


146 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

tion the services of our own historian, Sharon 
Turner, with the remark that it is not so much upon 
Sharon Turner that we rely, as upon his research. 
4 We rest/ he says, 4 upon his quotations from the 
classic historians; upon Homer, Straton, Heroditus, 
etc/ ‘Prove from history that our ancestors came 
from the quarter where Israel was last heard of, 
and we obtain a great advantage, at the very out¬ 
set/ ” 

Who were the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons? 
Sharon Turner says, in his Anglo-Saxons (Vol. 1: 
93, 102), speaking of the second, or Teutonic stock 
of European population: 44 It is peculiarly inter¬ 
esting to us, because from its branches not only 
our own immediate ancestors, but also those of the 
most celebrated nations of modern Europe have 
unquestionably descended. The Anglo-Saxons, Low¬ 
land Scotch, Normans, Danes, Belgians, Lombards 
and Franks have all sprung from that great fountain 
of the human race which we have distinguished by 
the terms Scythian, German or Gothic. ’ 7 ’ (Scythian 
is said to be only another form of the word Saxon.) * 

The captivity of Israel took place 725 B. C., about 
the eighth century before Christ, as we have quoted 
from the Bible that the Assyrians, after taking Israel 
captive, put them into the 44 cities of the Medes,” 
that is, in Media. Sharon Turner tells us that ac- 
cording to Heroditus our ancestors first ihade their 
appearance in Media in the seventh century B. C. 
But, according to Homer, it was the eighth century 
B. C. 

According to Homer, the first appearance of our 
British ancestry in Media was at the exact time of 

*Rev. J. A. Giles of Oxford, “History of the Britons from the earliest 
period to the invasion of the Saxons.” 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


147 


the Assyrian captivity of Israel. This is at least 
a startling and significant coincidence, if nothing 
more. 

Sharon Turner proves that Media was not the 
cradle of the Israelitish race, but that this people 
—the Saxons —appeared there; they came there from 
some other country. 

But Edward Hine shows, that in the sense of 
their tribeship, Palestine was their cradle. 

Mr. Hine has traced forty-seven of these identi¬ 
fications, and has constructed a very elaborate theory 
upon it. 

We see in these facts signs which point the way to¬ 
ward the fulfillment of the prophecies of Israel, as 
the nation, or people, who are to complete the estab¬ 
lishment of God’s Kingdom on the earth among all 
nations. 

She is simply the instrument best suited to the 
accomplishment of this purpose in God’s hands. 

In passing from the Old Testament to the New 
Testament in search of evidences which connect 
them, we shall be interested to find the same trend 
throughout this collection of sacred writings. 

At the time of the birth of Jesus wise men came 
from the east to Jerusalem, saying: 44 Where is 
He that is born King of the Jews? For we have 
seen His star in the east, and are come to worship 
Him.” These wise men were what were called 44 Il¬ 
luminati;” that is, of illuminated mind, or having 
spiritual discernment. They understood also, by 
astronomical and astrological signs that the One who 
had been so long foretold as the coming King of 
Israel had appeared in Bethlehem of Judea, in ac¬ 
cordance with the old prophecy. 


148 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


Herod certainly believed these things, and he 
knew, or believed, that should this child live his 
throne would be in danger. 

But neither Herod nor the Jews understood the 
significance of the rule of Jesus, and we may be 
allowed to say that to this day it has only been 
dimly apprehended, notwithstanding his enunciation 
of the primary principles of His kingdom, in His 
sermon on the mount, and by His calling His twelve 
apostles to Him, whom He sent to the “lost sheep 
of the House of Israel,’’ commanding them not to go 
into the ways of the Gentiles, nor into any city of 
the Samaritans, “but go rather to the lost sheep of 
the House of Israel,” “and as ye go,” said He, 
“preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 

Who were meant by the “lost sheep of the House 
of Israel” can be readily seen in the light of Biblical 
history and modern research. 

They were their own people, the “lost tribes” 
who were to be gathered and instructed in the prin¬ 
ciples of the kingdom, to the end that this people, 
as a nation, should exemplify the beauty of right¬ 
eousness, in regenerate or spiritual life, in the con¬ 
duct and order of the nation. 

On one of the feast days many people “took 
branches and went forth to meet him, and cried, 
Hosanna, blessed is the King of Israel that com- 
eth in the name of the Lord.” John 12. Also, in 
the history of the Acts of the Apostles, it is re¬ 
lated that “when they were come together they 
asked him saying, 'Lord wilt thou at this time restore 
again the Kingdom of Israel?’ ” 

(Matt. 19.) When his disciples were questioning 
him, near the close of his ministry, they said: “We 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


149 


have forsaken all and followed thee; what shall 
we have therefor! And Jesns said: “Ye that have 
followed me in the regeneration, when the son of 
man shall sit in the tfirone of his glory, ye, also, shall 
sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes 
of Israel ” 

In still another conversation, which Luke re¬ 
lates, he said: “Ye are they which have continued 
with me in my temptations, and I appoint unto you 
a kingdom, as my father hath appointed me, that ye 
may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and 
sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel.” 

There can be no possible doubt that he was refer¬ 
ring to a kingdom which He expected in another 
age, or time, to establish on this earth, and that it was 
to be a continuation, or restoration of the twelve- 
tribed nation of Israel. 

All His conversations and teachings indicated that 
fact, and when He disappeared from earth He left 
the promise that He would return to earth. 

Being sent by his Father, who is also Our Father, 
the Kingly Yehovah, and in communcation with Him, 
He was trying to carry out His plans for the redemp¬ 
tion of the planet upon which we live, in establishing 
not only the principles of personal and national right¬ 
eousness, but national order, as well, which the 
twelve tribes represented, for since “order is 
heaven’s first law,” social order must be the con¬ 
cern of heaven. 

Among all the histories of the world we find Tun¬ 
ing this thread, the preservation of order. Even 
the conflicts have had this in view. Notwithstanding 
the selfishness of man, the nations have been com- 


150 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

pelled, by the law of being, to strive toward peace¬ 
ful order. 

In looking over the face of the world, at the pre¬ 
sent time, in this light we find some very interesting 
facts. 

If the British nations, being of Saxon origin, are 
Israel distinctively, then Queen Victoria, and her 
descendants are descendants of King David, the 
covenant king of Israel. They, then, in themselves 
fulfilled so much of ancient prophecy, and show its 
truth in the events of history and in the progress of 
the race. Victoria was the mother, or grand-mother, 
of rulers among the great European nations. The 
Empress Victoria, widow of Frederick of Germany, 
was her daughter; William, the present emperor 
of Germany is her grand-son; the Czarina of Russia 
is her grand-daughter. 

The lamented Queen Louise of Denmark, who 
died September 30, 1898, the mother of King George 
of Greece, springing from the same Saxon source, 
was called “The mother-in-law of Europe,’’ hav¬ 
ing furnished so many princes and princesses for the 
European courts. She was the grand-mother of the 
Czar Alexander of Russia, so both heads of the great 
Russian empire are Israelites. Sweden and Norway, 
in fact all the Scandinavian races are of Israelitish 
origin, being descendents of the tribe of Dan. We 
make this assertion as being in harmony with all we 
have been able to gather from secular historians. 

For centuries there have existed a people in China 
who claim to be Israelitish, and who keep the Mo¬ 
saic law, and observe its rites and practices to this 
day. 

In Persia, and in Beloochistan, are tribes who 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


151 


always preserve their distinct identity. A tribe 
calling themselves Gadites (of the tribe of Gad), 
returned in a body to Palestine about the year 1881, 
saying they were told by the voice of the spirit that 
the coming of their Messiah was at hand. 

Let us now glance at the future and look with 
new eyes upon the Revelation of John, which tells 
us in the closing book of the Bible of the great things 
which lie at the end of the ages—in fact englobed 
within the approaching age. For in the time immedi¬ 
ately at hand there will be manifested greater 
things—which God says he has prepared—than has 
entered into the human mind to conceive. Out of the 
strange and wonderful foretellings, we may select 
points which show the continuity of Israel and her 
tribes. 

Rev., 7th chapter: “After this I saw four angels 
standing at the four corners of the earth, holding 
the four winds of the earth.” .... “And I saw an¬ 
other angel ascend from the sunrising, having the 
seal of the living God, and he cried with a great 
voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to 
hurt the earth and the sea, saying: 4 Hurt not the 
earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, ’till we have 
sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.’ ” 

“And I heard the number of them which were 
sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, 
sealed out of every tribe of Israel. 

“Of the tribe of Judah were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Gad were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Asher were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Napthali were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Manassah were sealed 12,000. 


152 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


“Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Levi were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Zebulon were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed 12,000. 

“Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed 12,000. 

“After these things I saw and beheld a great 
multitude which no man could number, out of every 
nation, and of all tribes, and tongues standing before 
the throne and before the Lamb arrayed in white 
robes, and palms in their hands. ’ 99 

Rev. 21:9: “And then came unto me one of the 
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the 
seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, 4 come 
hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife,’ 
and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and 
high mountain, and showed me that great city, the 
holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 
having the glory of God; and her light was like unto 
a stone most precious, as it were a Jasper stone, clear 
as crystal, having a wall great and high, having 
twelve gates, and at the twelve gates twelve angels, 
and names written thereon, which are the names of 
the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the 
east, three gates; on the north, three gates; on the 
south, three gates; and on the west three gates.’ ” 

This has always been interpreted to mean heaven, 
which we are to reach when we die. 

True, most true, that the pattern does exist in 
the eternal heavens. Here is the law of eternal and 
universal order existing there. But it comes out of 
heaven to the earth, and is to be manifested here. 
This is the prophecy of the Bible. It is the law of 
human development. 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


153 


The earth itself is undergoing the process of trans¬ 
formation. The new earth of prophecy which science 
is constantly demonstrating to us will become the 
abode of a higher race of beings, such as we may well 
believe those will be who survive the “ great tribu¬ 
lation” toward which the anxious thought of the 
world is ever turning under the name of the “ Great 
Eastern Question.’’ 

To those who study the process of race develop¬ 
ment, this prophecy of universal tribulation appears 
to be inevitable at the climax of the ages; the struggle 
between good and evil then reaches its greatest 
cumulative force. 

The battle waxes more tierce; the nations and 
people of the earth are engaged in one common 
question of dispute, and it becomes a race struggle 
between good and evil. 

What shall be the end? One of two things. The 
end will be the triumph of evil as the supreme con¬ 
quering power, and the consequent destruction of the 
true life of the planet or it will be the triumph of good 
through the organized unity of the nations of the 
earth, with the high purpose of establishing right¬ 
eousness in governmental, as well as the personal 
life of the world. 

This is the choice to be made. The world must 
organize its good, or he destroyed by its evil! 

Who shall doubt that goodness, righteousness and 
harmonious social order shall win in the great 
struggle ? 

In these ancient prophecies we are shown the 
denouement. 

Israel, with her twelve tribes, including Judah, 


154 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

shall re-establish her national order and build her 
cities upon the same ideals, plan and principles. 

To summarize: We must certainly form the nat¬ 
ural conclusion that so much stress would not have 
been laid upon the establishment of this tribal na¬ 
tion, and upon its restoration after its oid order, 
were there not some basic reasons existing in the 
mind of Yehovah, and in the nature of man also, 
which in its full development, will find expression 
through this race of people in the highest form of 
national life, or in other words, in the world’s order. 

This is something more than a deduction of 
science, for the discoveries of the laws of the human 
mind, and its organic plan of structure,* justify us 
in making the positive assertion that ancient Israel 
had this natural and profound reason for her exis¬ 
tence, and for her mission as the leading govern¬ 
mental force, furnishing the basis in her tribal 
system for a true social order. 

The developments of the last few years—and, not¬ 
ably, since the Spanish-American war—have dis¬ 
closed more fully than ever the fact that the Saxons, 
led by the Anglo-Saxons, are the “coming race,” and 
their mission as the greatest civilizing force is being 
demonstrated beyond cavil. 

It is interesting to note the continual increase and 
spread of Saxon power and influence in the develop¬ 
ments of today. 

The romantic marriage of the Saxon Ena, niece of 
King Edward VII, to the Spanish king, Alfonso, and 
her crowning, with the name of her illustrious Saxon 
grandmother, Queen Victoria, tells us the story of the 
conquest of the Spanish by the Saxon, through the 

♦See Book of Life by Sirartha. 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


155 


power of that mighty conqueror, Love, through 
whose potency the whole world will some day be 
united—the Saxon leading to these divine heights. 

Among all nations the Saxon may be said to show 
the keenest perception of the beauty of national 
righteousness, and a deeper spiritual consciousness 
in individual experience as related to character and 
the highest ideals of love and its mission. 

Even with the spectacle of the recent unjustifiable 
wars in the Philippines, in the Transvaal, and the 
eastern imbroglio, we may still note that the states¬ 
men claim that they are wars of ideas , and made in 
the interest of advance in civilization, instead of 
purely selfish conquest, however untrue it may be 
in fact. 

This is a tribute to the sentiment which crystal- 
ized into the Peace Congresses held at the Hague, 
which is the real evidence of the noble nature of the 
Saxon peoples, and originated with the Saxon Czar 
of Russia. 

We may look confidently, then, to the Saxon race, 
in conjunction with Judah—the Jew—the fullness 
of whose mission in the future is yet to appear, as 
the prophetic race of destiny to fulfill the “desire of 
all nations.’’ 

They are Israel. 

In the scientific system of order, which the Saxons 
are preparing to inaugurate, and surely will inaug¬ 
urate during the Twentieth Century—the tribal 
system of old Israel—existing in those old days 
under the fostering care of Jehovah—will still, under 
His care, and in fulfillment of His ancient promises, 
be restored in harmony with the science of this cen¬ 
tury. It will be restored in harmony with an analy- 


156 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


sis and classification of all the powers and the struc¬ 
ture of the mind and their resultant expression in 
creating the world’s activities, that give us twelve 
groups, exactly corresponding to the characteristics 
and functions of each of the twelve tribes. So that 
in organizing society according to this law, plan and 
method we shall form the governments of the world, 
according to the nature and needs of human beings, 
into “settled governments of just and old renown” 
(Tennyson). In the great outpouring of the spirit 
promised, the nations will be 4 * born of the spirit” 
and recognize the divine nature of all our faculties 
and powers, and their direct inheritance from God, 
which makes Him our father in truth and deed. 
Then, with reverent rejoicings, we will seek to create 
governments and institutions according to His plan 
and purposes. So shall the 4 6 kingdoms of this world 
become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.” 

Some day—some golden day, which may be now, 
these facts must win a general recognition of the 
principles of Christ’s kingdom on this earth, which 
will hasten His rule and influence In the national 
and governmental life of the world, as well as in the 
sweetness of individual experiences. 

4 ‘ This is that divine event to which the whole 
creation moves.”—Tennyson. 

It is the culmination of human development in 
the institutions of society! 

It is Yehovah’s Kingdom! 

It is David’s Kingdom! 

It is the Kingdom of Israel! 

It is the Kingdom of Christ! 

It is Israel’s Ancient Order! 

It is the coming Social Order among all nations! 


RENAISSANCE OF ISRAEL 


157 


“That which hath been is now; and that which 
is to be hath already been, and God requireth that 
which is past.” 


EPILOGUE 

When we have finished this examination of the 
Bible history and prophecy under the light of modern 
science, we are compelled to decide that this ancient 
book, which through the centuries has been accepted 
as the word of God, is either a book of exaggerated 
and fantastic imaginings, stultifying the human intel¬ 
lect with weird and unreal dreams, exciting hopes in 
the human heart never to be fulfilled, or that, as this 
book relates, Jehovah was an actual, intelligent, wise, 
good, loving, just Being, who not only created this 
earth and the human beings upon it to satisfy His 
creative nature, but that he had purpose, plan, de¬ 
sign; that the ultimate of this is to be manifested 
in perfected social and governmental institutions, 
all obeying laws of harmony and order like the orig¬ 
inal types at the great center of the universes. All 
this is based on twelve fundamental powers of the 
mind—the exact image of the divine creative mind 
in all its possible modes of expression, specially and 
notably manifested in the twelve tribes of ancient 
Israel as a historic and prophetic nation, the magnifi¬ 
cence of whose destiny is prefigured in the New 
Jerusalem of the Bevelator: 

“I have declared the former things from the begin¬ 
ning; .... I have even from the beginning declared 
it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee; 
lest thou shouldst say, mine idol hath done this,’ 
saith Jehovah.”—Isaiah 48. 


158 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


We must believe that He, this Being, knew and 
foretold all these things which science is now proving 
true to us, and that science by so doing becomes a 
part of the fulfillment of these prophecies, and points 
the way to their complete fulfillment, thus showing 
and vindicating the eternal kingship of Yehovah, the 
parent and leader of our race. 


THE ESSENTIAL' PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 


In 1896 the Mayfair, Illinois, Woman’s Club, un¬ 
dertook the study of the seven great Religions, of 
which Judaism was one, for the purpose of discov¬ 
ering their essential principles. Knowing my in¬ 
terest in Israelitish History and prophecies, they, re¬ 
garding Judah as the only representative of that 
ancient nation, selected me to treat the subject of the 
Essential Principles of Judaism. It gave me great 
happiness, and still further stimulated my enquiry, 
into the fundamentals of Judah’s relation to Israel, 
and the reason for the prophecies of a final restora¬ 
tion and recombining of those two nations of Des¬ 
tiny. The studies we had already made in the scien¬ 
tific discoveries of Sivartha, published in his “Book 
of Life,” and through various writers on the old 
prophecies, proved to us that in order to clearly un¬ 
derstand Judaism in its essential principles it is 
necessary to go back to the history of ancient Israel 
and study her law and mode of organization, as well 
as her religious sentiments. 

We may study Judaism from her writers and his¬ 
torians, and treat the subject to the credit of this 
most unique people, but inasmuch as the modern 
world considers Judah as the only representative of 
ancient Israel, and as the modern Jew himself seems 
to share this thought, the only way for us to do in 
considering the subject, is to replace Judah in her 
Tribal and National relations with Israel. We are 


359 


1G0 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


then studying the “Essential Principles of Israel- 
ism,” and this is the only way we can get at the 
thing we seek. For Judah, since the last of her 
prophets, nearly 400 years B. C., has lost the essen¬ 
tial features of her religion—Inspiration. 

Judah, in common with her sister nation, the ten 
tribes of Israel, has apparently lost the means of 
direct communication with God and with spiritual 
Beings, and thus alone by itself, Judaism has become 
unfitted to be a universal religion. It is no longer the 
religion of Bible times. There is no longer a uni¬ 
versal religion; there is no longer a religion in har¬ 
mony with God’s idea when He implanted Israel. 
But place Judah again in her tribal relations with 
Israel, and we restore Jehovah’s great ideal and plan 
and also restore communication with Him. Alone, 
Judah is only a fragment; in her true relations with 
Israel she becomes an integral part of the nation, and 
so becomes not only a universal religion, but becomes 
a part of the leading nation of the world, according 
to the old prophecy and promise of God when He 
established Israel as a Holy Nation. 

The Essential Principles of Israel are 12. Judah, 
apart from Israel, only represents three out of the 12, 
“Religion, only one out of the 12, is the re¬ 
sponsive unity of all beings, and that unity includes 
three essential things, these are unity of thought, 
of feeling, or affection, and of conduct.” With 
the enthusiasm created by sympathetic study of her 
history and prophecies, we have become jealous for 
the honor and dignity of Israel and feel that 
Judah would lose much that belongs to her as a 
member of Israel’s body, by a separate consider¬ 
ation, or by ignoring her old relations as a part of the 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM . 161 

12 Tribes. One must not ignore the truths found in 
the symbols of the twelve Tribes, in the breastplate 
with its 12 stones, and in the plan of the Holy City 
with its 12 gates and 12 foundations. 

When we come to understand the truths that un¬ 
derlie all these symbols we shall wonder that a Bible 
reading people have been so long blind and neglect¬ 
ful of the history and prophecies of Israel. Losing 
sight of their significance, the relation between 
ancient Israel and the modern world have been al¬ 
most entirely unrealized. We seem not to see or 
believe that their history or prophecies have any 
special bearing upon modern civilization, or that we 
need to enquire if we can learn anything in regard 
to the methods or principles given under the sublime 
and awful fires of Sinai which are worth our con¬ 
sideration when struggling with the great problems 
of social and national life of today. One of the most 
discouraging things to us is the strange apathy of 
Bible students upon this subject. It is as if they 
thought Jehovah had masqueraded before Israel for 
a few years or generations without reason or pur¬ 
pose, and then abandoned the Israelites to their own 
devices, leaving all His laws inoperative, His prom¬ 
ises a mere mass of idle words, His declaration con¬ 
cerning His character and the unceasing glory of His 
name unbelievable nonsense, which could be regarded 
or disregarded without result; as if a complete over¬ 
throw of His Kingdom which Israel was to manifest, 
and the magnificent promises of national glory and 
righteousness, which should make them a blessing 
and a light to all the world, could only find its ful¬ 
fillment in a small people, a bare remnant of two or 
three out of 12 Tribes; who, with all their greatness 


162 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


of character and sublime heroism through centuries 
of persecution, do not fulfill the promise made to 
Israel of a great and wide ruling nation. There is, 
however, in existence, already, an extensive litera¬ 
ture, having its growth in recent times, concerning 
the separation between Judah and Israel and the 
prophecies of her restoration. This separation took 
place in 976 B. C., not long after the government 
assumed the Kingly form. 

When Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, came to the 
throne, an opportunity arose by which he could re¬ 
trieve his father’s errors, but he proved himself 
even more oppressive than Solomon, with the inevi¬ 
table result. Open rupture followed. It will be re¬ 
membered that Israel was composed of 12 Tribes, 
and that when the division took place ten of the 
tribes revolted and formed a separate nation, leav¬ 
ing Judah and Benjamin alone, with a part (prob¬ 
ably one third) of Levi with the house of Judah. 

These associate tribes then became known as the 
“House of Judah” and the deathless, ubiquitous, 
vigorous, peculiar people, who after the Babylonish 
captivity became known by the title of “ Jews” took 
a new and important place in the world, the results 
of which will be known and felt while the human 
race endures. But although they retained the law 
and worship of Jehovah, which the revolting ten 
tribes forsook, they do not include “All Israel,” nor 
do they fulfill her destiny. 

Judah, standing alone, isolated from her brethren, 
the ten tribes, does not manifest, nor can she, all 
that is involved in the united national life of Israel. 
For though public virtue and private virtue are syn¬ 
onymous, and although righteousness exalteth a 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 163 


nation, and is its needful characteristic, neither vir¬ 
tue nor religion alone CONSTITUTE a nation. This 
y?e know. Nor does it determine the functions, 
duties or methods of national life. These just as 
truly rest in “Essential Principles” as those which 
relate to religion or to personal virtue. It is as 
much a part of righteousness to determine the func¬ 
tions of a public official, as it is to fulfill them faith¬ 
fully, We might say more clearly, that there is some 
“essential principle” inherent in the human mind, 
and in the Divine Original Mind, that creates a great 
public need, requiring a department to crystalize it, 
and officers to represent and execute the will or 
satisfy the needs of the people in that special need. 

Or more clearly still, perhaps, say that the mind 
itself, being an organism, has this department as it 
has for every other great human want or need. And 
this is true. THE MIND IS NOT A HOMOGENE¬ 
OUS MASS OF INDEFINITE SOMETHING- 
NESS OR NOTHINGNESS. It is as truly an or¬ 
ganism as the body is,—a living structure or living 
organism—each part performing its own function 
and having its own place in the mind in exact and 
orderly arrangement. 

It is coming to be a well recognized fact that in 
certain parts or areas of the brain resides the spe¬ 
cific kind of power or faculty, which manifests itself 
in specific ways, producing specific results. 

It has long been known, for instance, that the mind 
has three primary divisions,—front, middle and 
back, or wisdom, love and will. The front brain 
being the seat of the intellect, the middle portion of 
the affections, and the back part the seat of the will. 
These are formative and “essential” principles of 


164 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


the mind. No mind could be created or organized 
except upon this plan and upon these principles. As 
the mind is the foundation, or rather the producing 
cause of society, we are sure that whatever is, or 
whatever is done, it is the mind manifesting itself,— 
it is true whether it be today or in remotest times. 

What we say must immediately seem a truism— 
and it is one—when we say that the whole plan of 
the mind with its faculties and powers must have 
been the result of the working of “essential prin¬ 
ciples’ J in its creation and organization. Now if a 
Being, such as we think of as God, or as the Bible 
represents Jehovah to be, who, having created man 
and woman after the Divine likeness and image, and 
had constructed the human body and brain—mind— 
just like the great Original, and finally after a long 
series of incidents, during which this marvellous 
Being made declarations and promises that this na¬ 
tion more distinctly than any other shall manifest the 
laws, method, plan and principles of the Divine 
Government, what must we think, or believe but that 
He acted in all He did according to absolutely “es¬ 
sential principles” in forming or creating the nation 
of Israel, and in emphasizing the tribal number and 
preserving their distinctions? How much He cared 
is also shown in His sending His prophets to utter 
anew during the generations, the certainty of the 
final accomplishment of His unchanging purpose to 
restore or re-create this 12 tribed nation. 

We can only reach the conclusion, which the won¬ 
ders of modern science proves true to us, that the 
12 tribed nation represented the mind of its Divine 
founder, Jehovah. Also that, as His children, the 
human mind was capable by inheritance of the Divine 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 165 


nature and characteristics, of accomplishing this 
Divine plan in both personal and national life. 

That there were different tribes shows that each 
tribe must have had differing characteristics for 
the purpose of performing different functions in the 
life and work of the nation. We may reason justly 
and naturally from our present standpoint of experi¬ 
ence and observation, that this would be a wise order¬ 
ing of an intelligent Being. 

We may then conclude that there are inherent and 
44 essential ’’ principles which decided the 12 tribed 
system—that made it important that each tribe 
should preserve its tribal identity, and have a prince 
to lead them—that caused the Hebrew prophets un¬ 
der the inspiration of Jehovah, to foretell the future 
complete unification of the 12 tribes by the houses 
of Judah and Joseph (Ephraim or 44 All Israel”) 
into one nation. Under the same inspiration was 
also foretold the building of Jerusalem after a cer¬ 
tain described plan, with 12 gates—that gave to 
Reuben to Judah and to Levi the northern side of the 
city; to Joseph, Benjamin and Dan the eastern gates; 
the south side to Simeon, Issachar and Zebulon, and 
the western goings out' of the city of Gad, Asher and 
Naphtali. This is the description in the Bible in 
both Ezekiel in the Old Testament, and in the Reve¬ 
lation of John in the New Testament. 

The plan of the mind and the plan of the New Jeru¬ 
salem are mathematically exact copies of each other. 

In the separation between Israel and Judah there 
were ten of the original 12 tribes who became a 
separate nation. For several hundred years their 
history intermingled,—Judah retaining the worship 
of Jehovah, even in the midst of idolatrous practices. 


166 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

But all Israel, or, Ephraim (as the ten tribes were 
called, because this half tribe, from one of the sons 
of Joseph, led in the revolt under the leadership of 
Jereboam), forsook the worship of Jehovah and be¬ 
came wholly idolatrous. This finally led to their cap¬ 
tivity and consequent dismemberment as a tribal 
nation, and to the loss of both tribal and national 
identity. But (we wish to emphasize the fact) the 
principles of social order involved in the 12 tribed 
nations of Israel must be essential to national unity 
and greatness and possess something needful for the 
right plan and method, else would not Jehovah have 
at first treated it as essential in the original forma¬ 
tion of the nation, and then have persistently in¬ 
structed His prophets that this same national order 
was to be restored, and the very names* of the tribes 
to again appear. (Isaiah 66:22) 

In this extremely cursory way we have touched 
upon the principal points in the history of Israel to 
indicate the relation which Judaism bears to Israel- 
ism, and why the “essential principles’’ of Judaism 
cannot be fairly treated by itself. Specially is this 
true, because Judah, or the Orthodox Jews, notwith¬ 
standing their beliefs in the prophets, apparently,— 
we say apparently—recognize only themselves as 
representatives of Israel; and yet Judah does not 
seek any distinct place in the government of any na¬ 
tion where they find a home, nor do they seek to es¬ 
tablish a Jewish State. As one Rabbi said before 
the Jewish Woman’s Congress in Chicago in 1893, 
“The Jew has no talent for Government, he does 
not seek to meddle with the government of any coun¬ 
try in which he lives. His chief desire is to become 
an incorporate part of the people.” During the 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 167 

Parliament of Religions this declaration was prac¬ 
tically repeated by other Jewish speakers. This was 
said to show how many of the Jews had given up the 
idea of a restoration to Palestine because they can¬ 
not conceive of a J ewish State, owing to this lack on 
their part of a genius for government. The Jew is 
right! Since Judah, as already stated, is only a part 
of Israel and could fill permanently and successfully 
only three out of the 12 departments in the restored 
nation of Israel, which science has shown us to be the 
structural number in a true social order. 

JEHOVAH HATH SPOKEN AND SCIENCE 
INTERPRETS HIS REASONS! In Israel as a 12 
tribed nation lies all that is included in the Divine 
and human mind in its manifestations and methods 
of action, which when applied to the organic struc¬ 
ture of society, will again produce a 12 tribed nation. 
This means simply one with 12 departments, CLAS¬ 
SIFYING AND INCLUDING UNDER THESE 
GENERAL HEADS IN SYSTEMATIC ORGANI¬ 
ZATION ALL THE INTERESTS OF SOCIETY , 
BECAUSE BOTH THE DIVINE AND THE HU¬ 
MAN MIND ARE ORGANIZED AFTER ONE 
PLAN , INCLUDE ALL THE FACULTIES POS¬ 
SIBLE TO THE HUMAN MIND, AND PRODUCE 
ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE TO HUMAN SOCI¬ 
ETY. Israel was a cosmopolitan nation having 
types of character common to every nation. It is as 
such and because of her more dominant religious 
characteristics that she was “chosen,” not as a piece 
of favoritism, as some hold and teach, but as an in¬ 
strument,—a missionary and leading nation—which 
Jehovah could use to complete and perfect all na¬ 
tions under one great system of life, that He could 


168 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

use so that His Kingdom should be established in 
all the earth, and human unity and divine unity be 
completed in a great World Harmony. Israel was a 
nation with Religion as a pivot or center of unity, 
the tribe of Levi being the one tribe among the 12 
entrusted with the care of the distinctly religious 
needs of the tribes. 

Prof. E. C. Wines, in his “Laws of the Ancient 
Hebrews, ’’ says: 4 ‘ The nation of Israel was a unity 
founded on the principles of equal rights.—A unity 
in which the whole people formed the state, contrary 
to what happened in Egypt when the priesthood was 
the State.’’ So we see how it is that Judah with all 
her greatness and glorious mission, does not corm 
prise “All Israel,” and that the “Essential Prin¬ 
ciples of Judaism” sublime as they are, recognizing 
them as we must as lying at the heart of all true 
life—the very foundation of what we know as moral 
character—are yet not all that is required to fulfill 
the mission of “All Israel” in establishing the king¬ 
dom of God on earth. But the Jew is fulfilling a part 
of his natural and prophetic destiny in becoming a 
constituent part of the American nation, for here is 
being truly fulfilled, in part, the prophecy of the 
union of Judah and Israel, although, because of not 
recognizing their mutual relations, still unorganized. 
In this limited way, we can do little more than make 
these few hints upon the relation between Judah and 
Israel, because we have yet to examine the “Essen¬ 
tial principles of Judaism” as, on the occasion of the 
World’s Congresses, in Chicago in 1893, they were 
carefully elaborated by the most illustrious Jewish 
teachers. 

We wish to say that it is not simply for the sake 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 169 

of historical accuracy that we emphasize these facts, 
but because of vital truths which take hold on the 
eternal destiny of the human race, and because here¬ 
in lies the essential principles of World Order. 

We will quote first from the lamented Rabbi Isaac 
M. Wise, of Cincinnati,—than whom, probably, no 
greater Jewish teacher ever lived. 

“As far back in the twilight of myths, the 
early dawn of human reason as the origin of 
religious knowledges was traced, mankind was 
in the possession of Four dogmas. They were 
always present in men’s consciousness, although 
philosophy has not discovered the antecedents 
of the syllogism of which these are conclusions. 
These four dogmas are: First, there exists in 
one or more forms of being, living, mightier and 
higher than any other being known or im¬ 
agined.’ ’ (Existence of God.) * 4 Second, there 
is in the nature of this Superior Being, and in 
the nature of man, the capacity and desire of 
mutual sympathy, inter-relation and inter-com¬ 
munication. 9 9 (Revelation and worship.)‘ ‘ Third, 
the good and the right, the true and the beau¬ 
tiful are desirable, the opposite are detestable 
and repugnant to the Superior Being and to 
man.” (Conscience, ethics and aesthetics.) 
“Fourth, there exists for man a state of felicity 
or torment beyond this state of mundane life.” 
(Immortality, reward and punishment.) 

“These four dogmas of the human family,” 
he says, “are the postulates of all Theology and 
all Theologies, for they are axiomatic. They re¬ 
quire no proof for what man always knew is 
self evident, and no proof can be adduced to 


170 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

them, for they are transcendent. Philosophy, 
with its appurtenances and methods of cogni¬ 
tion, cannot reach them, cannot expound them, 
cannot negate them, and no one ever did prove 
such negation satisfactorily even to the indi¬ 
vidual reasoner himself.” “All systems of 
Theology are built on these four postulates.” 

“Further,” he says, “Judaism is the complex 
of Israel’s religious sentiments ratioccinated to 
conceptions in harmony with its Jehovistic God 
cognition.” “These conceptions made perma¬ 
nent in the conclusions of this people are the 
substratum to the Theology of Judaism.” 

As we see, his summary gives us then, first, the ex¬ 
istence of God; second, revelation and worship; third 
conscience, ethics and aesthetics; fourth, immortal¬ 
ity, reward and punishment. 

“All knowledge of God and His attributes, the 
true and the good came to man by successive 
revelations, of the indirect kind first, which we 
may call natural revelation, and the direct kind 
afterward, which we may call transcendental 
revelations! Both these revelations concerning 
God and His substantial attributes, together 
with their historical genesis, are recorded in the 
Thor ah in the seven Holy Names of God, to 
which neither prophet nor philosopher in Israel 
have added even one.” But, “What we call the 
God of Revelation, is actually intended to des¬ 
ignate God as made known in the trancendental 
revelations, including the successive God-ideas 
of natural revelation.” Further he says: 
“Whatever theory or practice is contrary to 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 171 

Israel’s God cognition can have no place in the 
Theology of Judaism.” 

“It comprises necessarily the doctrine con¬ 
cerning Providence, its relation to the individ¬ 
ual, the nations and mankind. This includes the 
doctrine of covenant between God and man, God 
and the fathers of the nation, and God and the 
people of Israel, or the election of Israel, the 
doctrine of the atonement and the doctrine con¬ 
cerning Free Will. ’ 9 

Rabbi Wise explained that “The God of 
Israel, the God enthroned in Zion, cannot be un¬ 
derstood to signify a tribal, national, local or 
special God.” It “would signify the one God 
revealed to the fathers and to Israel, and wor¬ 
shipped by them; the Creator Judge and pos¬ 
sessor of Heaven and earth, exalted above all, 
prior and superior to all matter, time and space. 
The Eternal Infinite, Absolute, Universal and 
Omnipotent One, Supreme Love and Truth, the 
highest ideal of moral perfection.” 

“The highest ethical duty of man, according 
to the Bible is to become God-like. To come as 
near as possible to this highest ideal of disinter¬ 
ested goodness, love, mercy, justice, and holi¬ 
ness, as we are urged by the innate moral law, 
and as our God-cognition defines.” 

We have quoted freely and exactly from him, and 
would have been glad to include the entire article in 
order to show more completely his exposition of 
Judaism. But there are others from whom we must 
quote, and will only repeat his summarized state¬ 
ment made in the beginning, that: 

“Judaism is the complex of Israel’s religious 


172 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


sentiments, ratioccinated to conceptions in har¬ 
mony with its Jehovistic God-conception.” 

We will now turn to another representative Jew¬ 
ish teacher, the Rev. Dr. Periera Mendes, on Ortho¬ 
dox or Historic Judaism. He says: 

“Our history may be divided into three 
eras; first, the Bible era; second, the Era from 
the close of the Bible record to the present time; 
third, the future.” 

“The first Era is the commencement of those 
ideals which are essential for mankind’s happi¬ 
ness and progress. The attitude of historical 
Judaism is to hold up these ideals for mankind’s 
inspiration, and for all men to pattern life ac¬ 
cordingly. The first Divine message to Abra¬ 
ham contains the idea of righteous altruism. 
Be a source of blessing! and the message an¬ 
nouncing the covenant is the righteous egoism. 
‘ Walk before Me and be perfect. Recognize Me, 
God, be a blessing to thy fellow man and be per¬ 
fect thyself.’ ” 

11 Then to Moses were high ideals given, The 
Fatherhood of God was announced,—‘ Israel is 
My Son, My first born. ’ Implying that other na¬ 
tions are also His children.” 

“At Sinai were given those ideals of human 
conduct, which, called the ten commandments, 
receive the allegiance of the great nations to¬ 
day. ’ ’ 

“Magnificent ideals! Yes, but not as mag¬ 
nificent as the three ideals of God revealed to 
Him. First, God is mercy; second, God is love; 
third, God is holiness. 4 The Lord thy .God 
loveth thee.’ ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 173 

with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with 
all thy might.’ ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
as thyself.’ ‘Thou shalt not hate thy brother 
in thy heart.’ ‘Ye shall love the stranger.’ ‘God 
is holiness.’ ‘Be ye holy, for I am Holy.’ It is 
God calling to man to participate in the Divine 
nature.” 

Continuing he says: ‘ ‘ Moses proclaimed free¬ 
dom throughout the land to its inhabitants in 
the year of Jubilee—declared the rights of the 
poor—gave a land tenure system which guarded 
their rights, limited priestly wealth. ’ ’ 

He also limited kingly wealth, commanding that 
the king keep a copy of the law, and read in it all the 
days of his life, ‘that ye may learn to fear Jehovah, 
and keep the words of the law, and these statutes to 
do them,’ that his heart be not lifted up above his 
brethren. Mendes proceeds: 

“God is the God of the spirits of all flesh.” 
This, he says “is a flash light of immortality 
upon the storm tossed waters of human life.” 
“Not by bread alone but by obedience to the 
Divine law.” “God has antedated and through 
His servants the prophets, proclaimed the law 
of the spirit.” 

So indeed did Jesus. “My words are spirit and 
they are life.” “Except ye be born of the spirit, 
ye cannot enter the Kingdom.” In obedience to 
this precept is our wisdom and understanding. Nay, 
our very life and length of days. Again Mendes: 

“Tenderness to brute creation, equality to 
aliens, kindness to servants, justice to the em¬ 
ployed is enjoined. The ruler should be the 
servant of the people.” 


174 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


“Thus far Moses. As for the other prophets 
* * * their ideals are purity in social life, in 

business life, in personal life, in religious life, 
these are essential in Judaism. The prophets 
announced: First, Universal Peace, or settle¬ 
ment of national disputes by arbitration; sec¬ 
ond, universal happiness, universal knowledge 
of God. ‘All shall know the Lord from the least 
to the greatest. Earth shall be full of the 
knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the 
sea.’ ” 

“From the Bible days to these, is the era of 
the formation of religious and philosophical sys¬ 
tems through the Orient and classic world. 
Above them all is the voice of historic Judaism 
clear and lasting. Judaism contends or harmon¬ 
izes with these various systems according as 
they agree with her fundamental or essential 
principles, claiming for Jehovah supremacy 
above all other Gods, as creator of all things.’’ 

Simon Hatzadk preached, “The Torah is the 
criterion of conduct; worship instead of doubt¬ 
ing. Do philanthropic acts instead of seeking 
only pleasure. Society’s safeguards are law, 
worship and philanthropy. Love labor. The 
practical application, not the theory is essential. 
Deeds not words. Be not like servants who 
serve for a price, be like servants who serve 
without thought of price and let the fear of God 
be upon you.” 

Again Mendes says, “Now in the era of the 
present; we march in the van of progress, our 
hand raised pointing to God. Here is the mission 
of Judaism: To preserve the thought and wor- 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 175 

ship of Jehovah, and to teach and insist upon 
obedience to His law.” 

Judah stands pre-eminent over all other religions 
in preserving the NAME of Jehovah, which has been 
almost lost in Christianity, notwithstanding His 
great declaration, “I am Jehovah! That is My Name, 
and My glory will I not give to another!” So they 
have maintained themselves separate from all other 
religions with this idea, making no affiliation with 
Christianity, her legitimate child, because of the 
worship of Christ in the place of Yehovah—making 
Jesus God, or the Son of God in a different sense 
from God’s other children. Moses said, “Ye are the 
children of your God.” David said, “I said ye are 
Gods.” Hosea cries, “Ye are the Sons of the living 
God.” Judah can have no sympathy with this 
Christian idea, for even confessing the Messiahship 
of Jesus they know that in their interpretations of 
the prophets He was to be a marvellous leader, but 
not to be confounded with the individual Being of 
Yehovah. 

To return to our quotations, Mendes proceeds to 
say: 

“Religiously, historical Judaism is expressed 
in the creeds formulated by Maimondes, as fol¬ 
lows: ‘We believe in God the Creator of all, a 
unity, a spirit who never assumed corporeal 
form, and He alone ought to be worshipped. We 
unite with Christians in the belief that revela¬ 
tion is inspired. We unite with the founder of 
Christianity that not one jot or tittle of the law 
shall be changed. Hence we do not expect a 
first day Sabbath. We unite in believing that 
God is omnicient and just, good and loving and 


176 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

merciful. We unite in the belief in a coming 
Messiah. We unite in our belief in immortality 
* * * and we believe heart, soul and might 

in the restoration of Palestine, a Hebrew State 
from the Nile to the Euphrates, even though as 
Isaiah intimates in his song of restoration, some 
Hebrews remain among the Gentiles/’ 

“We believe in a future Court of Arbitration, 
above suspicion, for the settlement of nations’ 
disputes, such as can well be in the shadow of 
that temple which we believe shall one day arise 
to be ‘a house of prayer for all peoples’ united 
in the service of one Father. Yes,” he says in 
closing, “The attitude in historical Judaism to 
the world, will be in the future as in the past 
helping mankind with his Bible until the gates 
of earthly paradise shall be reconstructed by 
mankind’s joint efforts, and all nations whom 
Thou, 0 God, hast made, shall go through and 
worship before Thee, 0 Lord, and shall glorify 
Thy Name.” 

The doctrine of Immortality has been believed to 
be a New Testament doctrine, having no foundation 
in the old Bible, but Rabbi Joseph Stolz of Chicago, 
maintained that man’s personal immortality was al¬ 
ways an established belief in Israel, and Jesus and 
His Apostles taught the doctrine in the very words of 
the Pharisees. In 1865 the Pittsburgh (Jewish) Con¬ 
ference declared: 

“We re-assert the doctrine of Judaism, that 
the soul is immortal, grounding this belief on 
the Divine nature of the human spirit, which 
forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery 
in wickedness. The joy is eternal because good- 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 177 

ness is everlasting, pain is temporal because Gdd 
will not contend forever, neither will He retain 
His anger to eternity. ,, 

Rabbi Stolz asserted, 4 4 Our life here fash¬ 
ions our life hereafter. This world is the vesti¬ 
bule to the next. But the hope of immortality 
must not be the basis of ethics.” 

Rabbi Isaac S. Moses of Chicago, maintained that 
the object of Jewish prayer is to lead men to perfec¬ 
tion on Earth. The function of Jewish prayer is not 
to persuade God into granting favors, or by hymns 
and praises to influence His will. It is rather Man’s 
opportunity to learn to subject his will to the will of 
God. To strive after truth, to enrich the heart with 
love for humanity, to ennoble the soul with longing 
after righteousness. 

The main elements of Jewish worship are, free¬ 
dom, law, truth, love to God and man, holiness, grati¬ 
tude, peace and universal brotherhood. Every Jew¬ 
ish service closes with these words, ‘‘We hope, O 
God, that all superstition will speedily pass away, all 
wickedness cease and the kingdom of God be es¬ 
tablished in the earth. Then will the Lord be King 
over all the earth. On that day shall God be 
acknowledged One, and His NAME ONE!” 

Said Rabbi Kauffman Koehler: “To bring about 
this time when ‘the earth shall be full of the knowl¬ 
edge of God as the depths of the sea are covered with 
water,’ is the mission of the Jew.” 

We would like to add of his noble words, this: 
“There was no reason for the Jewish people at large, 
or for any of their leaders, to bear Jesus any grudge 
or to hate the noblest and most lofty minded of all 
the teachers in Israel. It was the anti-Semitism of 


178 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

the church in the second century, that cast the guilt 
upon the Jew and his religion/’ We are glad to 
accept his correction of an ancient error, which has 
wrought so much misery to the Jew, but not alone 
to him, for the dark cloud of uncharitableness and 
malignant spirit of persecution has darkened the 
lives of untold thousands besides, and turned back 
the progress of humanity for nearly 2,000 years. We 
may add here that Prof. Gotthard Deutch explained 
among, many other important historic details that 
the original feature of Christianity is its combina¬ 
tion of the Logos with the national Jewish Messianic 
idea, saying ‘ 4 This is the result of Jewish Alexan¬ 
drian Philosophy/’ The papers from which we have 
quoted so freely are full of gems which can but ex¬ 
cite the admiration of every religiously or morally 
inclined mind. We confess that the essential prin¬ 
ciples of Judaism, as enunciated by these learned 
Jewish teachers, challenges our admiration, claim 
our sympathy, and find a response in our innermost 
being. Judaism is the mother of the Christianity, of 
Christ, to which we give our adhesion—which pro¬ 
claims the Kingdom of God as having place and 
power of being on this earth, entrance into it only 
to be gained by obedience to the truths He enunci¬ 
ated, and by being born of the Spirit! But we must 
hasten on to examine still other papers on “Judaism 
and the modern State.” Here we find in the clearest 
and most explicit terms, declarations of the utter 
giving up on the part of some Jews of all claims, and 
of all hopes of ever establishing a Jewish State. 
(This is distinct from the Hebrew State.) 

Kabbi Phillipson, D.D., in his able paper on 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 179 

“Judaism and the Modern State/’ makes these re¬ 
markable statements: 

44 The position of Judah in regard to the State 
is very clear. Its followers are Jews in religion 
only, children of their fatherland whatever or 
wherever it may be in all that pertains to the 
public weal. Judaism discountenances the con¬ 
nection between Church and State. Each shall 
attend to its own. Judaism teaches its confes¬ 
sors that if any contingency should arise (an 
occurrence of which I cannot conceive) in which 
religion should conflict with the State, the re¬ 
ligion must take the second place, for we recog¬ 
nize no power within a power. The two, religion 
and government, have distinct and individual 
provinces. Neither shall encroach upon each 
other. ’’ 

Dr. Phillipson has failed to remember that Jeho¬ 
vah made religion the central power of the State, 
through which they came into direct relations with 
Him in order to be instructed in the law, method, 
principles and plan of His Government. 

“For the modern State, then,” he further con¬ 
tinues, 4 4 founded upon principles of equal rights of 
all men, churches or religious parties have no ex¬ 
istence.” 

Koehler further stated: 44 As for Judaism’s 
attitude to the State, I need only to point to the 
partiotic acts of Judaism’s confessors in every 
land in war or peace, to show how fully and 
positively the Jews have proven that they are 
Jews in religion alone, citizens of their father- 
land wherever it may be in everything else, and 
that their faith has nothing at variance with the 


180 


WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 


common weal; that they are not a class standing 
apart, but their hopes and hearts are bound up 
with everything that conduces to civic advance¬ 
ment and their country’s honor and political 
triumphs; that they recognize all men as breth¬ 
ren, and pray for the speedy coming of the day 
when all over the world religious differences will 
have no weight in political council, when Jew, 
Christian, Mohammedan, agnostic as such, will 
figure in the deliberations of civic bodies only 
as men. This is the political philosophy of the 
Modern State, this is the teaching of Judaism.” 

We have quoted thus extensively that there may be 
no mistake, and no misapprehension in regard to 
the “Essential Principles of Judaism” as held and 
taught by its representatives of today. We have 
not assumed to analyze Judaism without free and 
exact quotations. Judaism speaks her own language 
better than another can, and has the right to present 
her own theories and principles. 

Rabbi Joseph Silverman of New York City, says: 
4 4 All Jews do not hold the same form of faith and 
practices.” We can see this from our quotations, 
and while we must commend Rabbi Koehler for his 
tolerant spirit, since he has lost the FULL meaning 
of Israelism in regard to Israel’s original relation to 
religion, or the place of Religion in the Revelation 
of Jehovah, we must see that Judaism has lost her 
open communication with Jehovah, or he would have 
certain knowledge that the religion of Israel was a 
universal religion as it came from the mouth of God, 
and therefore applicable among all people. Only 
one of the teachers, Mendes, an orthodox Jew, ex¬ 
presses a belief in the restoration to Palestine, and 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 181 

the establishment of a Hebrew State. This would 
mean more than a distinctly Jewish State, because 
the entire nation were Hebrews, while only the tribes 
of Judah and Benjamin were called Jews. He be¬ 
lieves this undoubtedly, from their acknowledged 
“lack of talent for government” and their loss of 
faith in finding their captive brethren, the ten tribes, 
who are needful to the fulfilling of Yehovah’s prom¬ 
ise of gathering the entire 12 tribes, expressed by 
name, and stated with great particularity, of making 
them “One nation in the mountains of Israel.” Here, 
is a question of the veracity of the Hebrew prophets, 
for their words upon that point are unequivocal, and 
their prophecies unconditional. 

We must not refrain from adding in favor of 
Judah that one of Yehovah’s prophets—Zechariah— 
tells us that “Jehovah shall also save the tents of 
Judah FIRST , that the glory of the house of David 
and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not 
magnify themselves against Judah.” This would fill 
my conception of that Divine character, to work this 
measure of justice for Judah, who has suffered such 
depths of humiliation through the centuries while 
maintaining and preserving His Glorious NAME, 
which will never be lost nor “given to another.” 

In the movements of the present one seems to see 
brilliant signs of the almost immediate fulfillment 
of this prophecy, to be brought about largely—an¬ 
other piece of Divine justice—through the influence 
and efforts of woman. 

This salvation of Judah to be accomplished in her 
return to Palestine and Jerusalem to establish “a 
religious center for all Jews throughout the world.” 
(From Mrs. Rosa Sonneschen’s address before the 


182 WOMAN’S PLACE IN GOVERNMENT 

National Council of Jewish Women in Chicago in 
1896) only presages that greater return of repre¬ 
sentatives of the 12 tribes to Palestine, to establish 
a great center for ALL ISRAEL; the object and 
result of which will be to bring about a Federation 
of ALL NATIONS around this common and natural 
center, the historic and prophetic land of Palestine, 
and the prophetic NEW JERUSALEM, which is to 
be builded “upon her own heap.” Palestine, being 
the geographical, magnetic and spiritual center of 
this earth, this is the spot, favorable both by situa¬ 
tion and association, for such a center of union. 

In this great union, the Essential Principles of 
Judaism (Israelism) will be found to be the “Essen¬ 
tial Principles” of religious untiy for ALL the 
WORLD, because, consciously or unconsciously, they 
underlie all the Great Religions, for they are pri¬ 
mary principles which the good and true of all the 
earth accept without cavil, in whatever form religion 
appears, or whatever philosophy surrounds them, 
lacking only the recognition and use of the NAME 
YEHOYAH, because other than the Hebrew faiths, 
do not know His Name, and even these do not know 
its significance. Even the Hebrews still regard it as 
the “Mystery of God.” 

This has waited for scientific knowledge to dis¬ 
close its meaning, which we may now find in the 
“Book of Life,” by Sivartha, the most unique and 
remarkable book of this time. Containing, as it 
does, a series of scientific discoveries in the mind of 
man, which furnishes the explanation of all these 
mysteries, it opens up the gates of knowledge and 
fulfills the ancient promise that the “knowledge of 
Yehovah shall cover the earth as the waters cover 


THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM 183 

the sea.” When this is finished, the “Lion of the 
Tribe of Judah”—the covenant King of Jehovah— 
shall sit upon the throne of David over ALL IS¬ 
RAEL, meaning the 12 tribes, and His Kingdom 
shall have become the recognized system of Govern¬ 
ment both in form and principles, among ALL THE 
NATIONS OF THE EARTH . 


Commendations of Earlier Works 


Headquarters and Office of President. 

49 Victoria Street, Westminster. 

London, June 22nd, 1893. 

Dear Sister,—The address sent by you to Lady Somerset and my¬ 
self is a credit to womankind in its theory and form of expression. 
It is well worthy the thoughtful attention of all who desire to 
see the development of woman forwarded, and whether its conclu¬ 
sions are accepted or not, the reading of the essay will prove in¬ 
structive, suggestive and inspiring to the mind. The earnestness and 
ability of the author are highly commended by us, and we feel that 
she is a thoroughly womanly as well as a most intellectual and cap¬ 
able woman. 

Mrs. K. V. Grinnell, Frances E. Willard, 

Mayfair, Ills., U. S. A. Isabel Somerset 

Susan B. Anthony, the great leader of American womanhood, who 
blazed the way of upward effort for her sex with such splendid re¬ 
sults, said of one of Mrs. Grinnell’s books: “If your ‘Destiny of 
Woman’ can reach the public through the right channel, it will go 
like wild-fire among the women.” 

Chicago, Ills., October 31st, 1908. 

I have read Mrs. Katherine V. Grinnell’s “Rennaissance of Israel” 
with intense interest and deep gratitude. One lays down the book 
with a sense of having been in the grip of a mighty power; with a 
sense of wonder that some genius did not reveal this truth and 
beauty long ago. The reader rarely finds such a wealth of thought 
in so small a compass. Professor Henry Walter Graham. 

Rev. A. Rittenhouse, at the close of Mrs. Grinnell’s lecture in the 
M. E. Church, Philadelphia, of which he was pastor, said: “The address 
of Mrs. Grinnell is the most masterly in statement, the keenest in in¬ 
sight, the most comprehensive in scope, and the clearest in language 
of anything on a kindred subject which ever came before me.”—W. C. 
T. U. National Convention, December, 1904. 

“Mrs. Grinnell’s manner of treating her subject is entirely original, 
fascinating, and convincing. She knows her subject. Her lectures 
before the Congress at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, in pulpits, before 
Women’s Clubs; also various Reform organizations from Maine to 
California, are always received with enthusiasm. Her earnest¬ 
ness and clear delivery hold her audience in almost breathless inter¬ 
est from start to finish.”—Chicago Jeffersonian. 


184 



The Book of Life 

The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man 

By DR. ALESHA SIVARTHA 

Published by Holmes W. Merton, New York City Postpaid, $2.00 

Publisher’s Note:—From 1859 to 1884, and since, Sivartha issued 
a large number of monographs upon the subjects of his discoveries. 
Thousands of copies of these were sent out over the world and 
became the basis of much of the radical thought of the age. In 
1884, The Book of Life, 412 pages, was written, and ran through 
six large editions. In 1888, a Universal Synthesis, already begun, 
and a re-examination of the vast field of natural laws upon which 
the work was based, influenced the author to delay the further 
publication of the work. After twenty-four years of incessant 
research in the constitution of man. The Book of Life is reissued 
with only minor changes and additions to the text, and the 
Universal Synthesis will be published at an early date in the tables 
of the new language, Yesona. HOLMES W. MERTON. 


A Few Words of Praise 

These discoveries in mental and social science have received the 
favorable attention of eminent scientists, and in the language of a 
distinguished critic “fully entitle the discoverer to rank with 
Kepler and Sir Isaac Newton, and place him with the foremost 
thinkers of the age.”—Cincinnati Gazette. 

Through his own discoveries this author has carried forward the 
crude work of Gall and Buchanan, of Carpenter, Spencer, and 
others, to a system of human science which bears the strong 
impress of completeness, of exact and convincing demonstrations, 
and of direct application to the affairs of life. The literary style 
of the book is one of noble and dignified simplicity, with a rare 
fullness of artistic expression.—U. S. Monthly. 

Sivartha is one of the most profound thinkers and writers of the 
country. No one in America has devoted more time to research in 
this science.—Chicago Express. 

Sivartha is a scientist and looks at the Labor question from a 
scientific stand-point—the only logical position from which it can 
be considered. In his writings Social Science is made so plain 
that any one can easily understand it.—Labor Enquirer. 

The Author of The Book of Life is one of the most careful and 
critical thinkers of the age.—Religio-Phil. Journal. 

Sivartha is a clear and logical reasoner, arranging his argu¬ 
ments with mathematical precision, and showing deep study of the 
subjects he handles.—Allegan Democrat. 

We most cordially commend this charming, original, and learned 
discussion of the fundamental principles of history and human 
science.—Hon. Geo. Willard, M. C. 

“I wish to speak before this Convention of the discoveries and 
plans of Social Order by Sivartha, now sitting in the audience. 
These natural plans apply to the whole scope of both city and 
farm life, and it is my conviction that they are destined to become 
the basis of all future statesmanship. It seems to me that in their 
elaboration Dr. Sivartha has reached the very foundation of all 
these questions, and that in his work he has displayed the most 
profound thought and extensive scientific knowledge.”—Hon. 
George W. Julian, M. C., at Battle Creek, 1873 State Convention. 




The immense value of these discoveries lies in the fact that they 
absolutely demonstrate the great truths of the Bible, and that they 
place within our hands the knowledge which is necessary for the 
practical work of building up the Messianic life.—Rev. Jonathan 
Cummings. 

This work is full of astounding discoveries and new and remark¬ 
able theories, yet it is fully sustained by the well settled facts of 
science as far as they go. Its Author is a ripe scholar and in his 
prime. Every philanthropist will wish him success, and will read 
his book with profit and delight.—Rev. J. Fletcher Wilcox. 

The address upon the Tree of Life was brim full of scientific 
knowledge, and it was received with enthusiastic applause by the 
large and unusually intelligent audience.—Prof. W. P. Wilson, 
Harvard University. 

These discoveries in Mental and Social Science are the most 
important yet made, and they deserve the attention of every one 
who is interested in his own culture or that of the race. They give 
the author a rank among the most eminent of scientific men.— 
Cyclopedia of Dates. 

Among the world’s great books, The Book of Life, by Sivartha, 
ranks next to the Bible.—Rev. Archdeacon Webber, D.D. 

The most wonderful and practically the most important of all 
Bible discoveries are those made by Dr. Sivartha. He has been the 
first to apply scientific methods and proofs to the Messianic prophe¬ 
cies and to give us the actual plan and laws of the coming Kingdom 
of Christ.—Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D., Toronto. 

I heartily endorse the position taken by Dr. Sivartha that in 
the scientific study of man’s constitution must be found the solution 
of all the great problems of government, education and the insti¬ 
tutions of social life.—Hon. George Bancroft, Historian and States¬ 
man. 

The writings of Sivartha treat in a striking and original manner 
all the religious and social problems of the day. His scientific 
works on Physiology, Astronomy and Geology are used in thousands 
of schools and colleges of this country.—The Chicago Inter-Ocean. 

The scientific work of Sivartha stands in the highest rank for 
its exactness and perfection of detail.—Prof. Asa Gray, LL.D., 
Harvard. 

These newly formed truths guide us safely through the Temple 
of Truth and we are so charmed with its splendors that the present 
lives of men seem like the uncertain shadows of a dream.— 
Rev. T. C. Edwards, Cambridge. 

The Author of The Book of Life has reduced the structure, 
functions and relations of the brain to a science, and demonstrated, 
as well, the only true basis of Sociology. His clear, scientific 
statements, his eloquent language and beautiful illustrations, will 
be a rare treat to all lovers of truth.—Prof. J. H. Cook, Joplin 
College. • 

An important contribution to the doctrine of the physical basis 
of mind was made by Dr. Alesha Sivartha and published in his 
work The Book of Life. We must concede to the author the pos¬ 
session of great genius superposed upon an intimate knowledge of 
the anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system. He 
undertakes to set forth a new mental science or Mentology and his 
book is a most painstaking and elaborate production, well worthy 
of a wide publicity.—David Allyn Gorton, M.D., in The History of 
Medicine, Philosophical and Critical. Vol. II. (Putnam’s.) 


Other Works by Sivartha 


THE MARCH OF NATIONS. (Out of Print.). $2.00 

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARTS OF LIFE. Five lithographs 

in colors, 26 x 42 inches, in case.$20.00 


Used in over 8,000 High Schools, Academies and Universities. 

Re-issued by the Union School Furniture Co., as The Sivartha 
Charts of Life, at $20.00 per set. 

Among the thinkers of the present age Dr. Sivartha has been the 
first to present a scientific and natural basis for all the institutions 
of society and at every step to establish the plan and details of 
that basis by easily understood proofs of science.—Gen. James B. 
Weaver, M. C. 

I believe that the plan for the new organization of our Government 
and other institutions in twelve great Departments, as so carefully 
wrought out by Dr. Sivartha, must be the next great advance step in 
securing universal justice and peace and I shall be glad to take 
some active part in bringing about that great consummation.— 
Hon. J. J. Gosper, Gov. Arizona. 

The “Charts of Life” convey very vividly the many important 
facts in anatomy and physiology, and are accurate and reliable for 
all purposes of education.—E. H. Pratt, A.M., M.D., Prof, of Anat¬ 
omy, Chicago Homeopathic College. 

I have examined the “Physiological Charts of Life,” and can say 
without hesitation, that I think them the most accurate, and, with¬ 
out doubt, in mechanical execution, superior to any charts extant. 
The original drawings have been made by one who is thoroughly 
acquainted with the anatomy of the human system, and as a physi¬ 
ologist he has no superior. He has made practical use of his 
knowledge in these “Life Charts.” I take pleasure in recommending 
them.—Milton Jay, M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of 
Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Bennett College, Chicago. 

I take great pleasure in recommending the Physiological “Charts 
of Life,” which demonstrate very strikingly the internal dissections 
of the human body. The charts are especially excellent in showing 
the relations of the different organs, and in illustrating the nervous 
and cerebral system.—T. G. Comstock, M.D., One of the attending 
Physicians, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis. 






Works by Holmes W. Merton 

Descriptive Mentality, From the Head and Face (1886, 1899, 

1912). Large octavo, 224 pp. $1.50 

Helmer and Merton’s Anatomical Charts. 5.00 

Merton’s First Aid Charts. 5.00 

Miller-Merton Vocal Atlas, for Vocal Teachers. Joint Author¬ 
ship, Dr. Frank E. Miller and Holmes W. Merton.. 1.00 

Social Harmonism—Concerning Life Under Real Representative 

Government. 1.50 


Commendations 


AMERICAN RED CROSS 


Hon. William H. Taft 

President 

Mr. Robert W. De Forest 
Vice-President 

Hon. A. Piatt Andrew 
Treasurer 


Hon. Frederick W. Lehmann 

Counselor 

Mr. Ernest P. Bicknell 

National Director 

Mr. Charles L. Magee 

Secretary 


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 


Miss Mabel T. Boardman 
Mr. Robert W. De Forest 
Hon. James Tanner 
Hon. Charles Nagel 
Hon. Huntington Wilson 


Brig.-Gen. George H. Torney, U. S. A. 
Surg.-Gen. Charles F. Stokes, U. S. N. 


Major-Gen. George W. Davis, U. S. A. 
Chairman Central Committee 


First Aid Department 

Major Charles Lynch, Medical Corps, U. S. A., In Charge 
Room 715, Union Trust Bldg. Washington, D. C., Dec. 16, 1911. 
My Dear Dr. Merton: 

I have at last heard from Dr. Shields to whom as you know a set 
of your charts was sent. Dr. Shields tells me that he has heard 
high commendation of these charts from a number of physicians 
and nurses, and that he believes they would be of great utility for 
advanced courses in First Aid. He also particularly mentions the 
artistic excellence of the charts. I concur fully with Dr. Shields 
in what he has said. You are at liberty to use this letter. 

Very truly yours, CHARLES LYNCH, 

Major, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, 

In Charge, First Aid Dept. 


New York City, October 31, 1911. 

I have long used and admired the anatomical paintings of Dr. 
Merton. His new illustrations for the demonstration of first aid 
are of real value to students, teachers and lecturers.—Luther H. 
Gulick. 


H 304 85 *.i 

























' <* *' -‘ 4 

(.O' t • 1 ' * *, 



* •y'. *■ 

<n 6 *• 

* ^ cr 

* <& : 

%* o_ % 

• < ’ * Jty 0 ^4. * O N 0 

, \> 


oV-* - 

/ 4 * ^ • 

o -v. »« A 

.sA o 0 " ° * 

o» r* 



>. O 




W v ; 

c, 

C? lA ° 

* <V* <p\ o 

^ <L V ^ ^ ^ 

s < 0 ^ "o. * * A 

(V « *• 1 ® Q 0 N a 

C° *VvK%t % °o %, 0- 


% +7&r?S <y 

*\ <y 

<v *v®- > v 

A®’ ’“j\'^)^A, , o «£» A ** 

: ^ -mmi w • 









































































